Hero, that’s what they continue to call me here, but I don’t feel like one. I mean, how could I feel like one? I was awarded and honored as one of the best dogfighters in the German military. Having said that, I know that I was only given that recognition because of all the destruction I brought in the air. However, who will honor all of the lost soldiers? The ones forgotten in the horrid trenches or the ones left dismembered and broken in no man's land. They are the true heroes, not the German soldier who fought in the air because he feared the action on the land, not the German soldier that feared disease, loneliness, shell shock, and the death that the trenches brought. However, the Treaty of Versailles offers Germany and its people a new
