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Originally Posted by wdfifteen
An old story. I didn't tell it to my grandson. You've probably all heard it.
The last living German pilot from WWI was giving a talk to Ms. Smith's 1st grade class about WWI and describing one of the dogfights he was in.
"It vas chaos!" he said, "Der vas fokers coming at me from zee right, fokers coming from zee left - dem fokers was everyplace!"
The nervous teacher interrupted. "I think it would be good to remind the children that a Fokker is a kind of airplane."
"Yah,yah. But de fokers shooting at me vas flyink Messerschimdts."
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Why were the Germans shooting a German? 
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