Perhaps I've edited too many videos, or perhaps I know to much. While the production values are great and the video does a wonderful job of tugging at the heartstrings, it's a nonesensical mishmash of historical juxtapositions. The screen shows us "1944" and quotes FDR's 1933 inaugural address; we see Mustangs flying to Churchill's "Blood, Sweat, and Toil" (pre Battle of Britain) speech; we are told that the USAF defended the world in 1945 when the USAF didn't get around to existing for another three years, and we have WWII pilots launching off into the wild blue to JFK's stirring words. Give me a break. And what was the significance of the "1944" that the video started with, other than it was 40 years prior to the Raptor's honorary flight? The cynic in me says this video was put together by someone who's hoping to sell more than the announced 218 Raptors.
Regards,
Joe