[Magdalen] Lubitz.

[Grace Cangialosi]

So "mentally Ill" = "wacko"
Got it.

> On Mar 28, 2015, at 6:31 PM, Allan Carr <allanc25 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> With all respect, someone who deliberately flies an airplane with 150
> people in it into a mountain is fully wacko according to the several
> dictionaries I've just read "A person regarded as eccentric or irrational:"
> 
> On Sat, Mar 28, 2015 at 1:13 PM, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> David,
>> With all due respect, I cringed at your description of Lubitz as a "wacko
>> copilot."
>> If the emerging reports are correct, he  appears to have had a history of
>> depression, which is a disease that can have tragic consequences for the
>> individual and those around him/her, as we have seen again and again.
>> 
>> Responsible for his actions? Yes. Irresponsible in tearing up doctor's
>> notes and hiding his illness? Yes.
>> "Wacko"? No.  Tragic would be more apt, I think.
>> 
>>>> On Mar 28, 2015, at 1:19 PM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <
>>> magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> I have been curious about this name, so I did some checking.
>>> 
>>> Since Poland and Germany have been side by side and there has
>>> been much flip-flop of boundaries between them through the centuries,
>>> it's no surprise that there are German names that have been used by
>>> families who are Polish for centuries, and vice versa.
>>> 
>>> This is probably the case with the wacko copilot of the recent plane
>> crash
>>> in the French Alps.  His name has a Slavic ending "itz" which is  the
>>> German/Polish equivalent of -icz, -ich, and -age.  These are all  Slavic
>>> endings that roughly equate to "son of" (Who can forget blonde beauty
>>> newscaster Jessica Savage?).
>>> 
>>> Despite the Slavic origin of the "itz" names, the "itz" did not  hinder
>> the
>>> career of the famous Admiral Doenitz before and during WW-2.
>>> He was Commander in Chief of the German Navy.
>>> 
>>> Then there was the second German warship of the Bismarck Class,
>>> the Tirpitz - "The Lonely Queen of the North" - also named after a
>>> German Admiral who commanded the German Navy.
>>> 
>>> A lot of history is buried in our names.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> David Strang.
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Allan Carr