[Magdalen] Lubitz.

[Marion Thompson]

Call it what you will, he killed 150 people, including himself.  I'm 
aligned with Allan.

Meaning no harm, but probably judged to be harmful,
Marion, a pilgrim

On 3/29/2015 12:02 AM, Grace Cangialosi wrote:
> 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
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