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Posted: Jun 6, 2012 - 11:06am

 oldslabsides wrote:
1944: Operation Overlord lands allied forces in Normandy

 
I've made quite a study of this and still cannot fathom what it might have been like to be one of those bobbing about in an LST.
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Posted: Jun 6, 2012 - 10:39am

 oldslabsides wrote:
1944: Operation Overlord lands allied forces in Normandy

 
D-Day.  A day that changed the world. The Atlantic's waters were red. Not many of those folks left. We each should find ways to keep their memories alive.


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Posted: Jun 6, 2012 - 6:03am

1944: Operation Overlord lands allied forces in Normandy
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Posted: May 27, 2012 - 1:28pm

 DaveInVA wrote: 
A special part of my childhood growing up.  We could see it from where I lived on the east side of the bay.  Memories of crossing it in fog with the glow of the special sodium lights it had.  Ferry rides across the bay going by the bridge and Alcatraz, which was still open.  These ferry boats were what was used as the police station in Nash Bridges.  Being high up on a hill side where you could overlook the bay, see the fog roll in and fill up the entire basin, with the bridge disappearing except for the very tops poking above the fog.  Its was like someone dumped dry ice into the bay. The whole panarama of seeing the peaks of the hills poking about the fluffy and sometimes roiling fog under the bright sunlight above the fog... 

Its kinda mind boggling thinking back that it still pretty new when I was a kid.  Now its a majestic lady overlooking the Bay.
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Posted: May 27, 2012 - 9:55am

The Golden Gate Bridge, a wonder of the world for 75 years


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Posted: May 18, 2012 - 7:31pm

Mt St Helens erupted, in 1980
 

 
 
And this is her today...
 

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Posted: May 12, 2012 - 8:37am

 hippiechick wrote:

Yes, tear gas. Hard to remember anything that happened right before the shooting. 

 
This gave me chills!  They probably had not registered what had just happened. It still profoundly shocks me that this happened in the USA.  That you were there is also chilling!  What a horrible wake up call.

{#Meditate}
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Posted: May 11, 2012 - 8:58am

Bob Marley passed away 31 years ago today.

‎"Good friends we have, good friends we have lost, along the way. " 

 
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Posted: May 8, 2012 - 5:56am

1945: VE Day
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Posted: May 6, 2012 - 8:43am

 Proclivities wrote:

Is it possible that those plumes of smoke were tear gas from before the firing began?

 
Yes, tear gas. Hard to remember anything that happened right before the shooting. 
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Posted: May 6, 2012 - 8:38am

 hippiechick wrote:

Yeah, I would say it's before the shooting, except for the smoke. Or everyone was really stunned, there were a few moments of dead silence.

 
Is it possible that those plumes of smoke were tear gas from before the firing began?
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Posted: May 6, 2012 - 8:27am

 hippiechick wrote:

What happened was that all of a sudden everyone was shooting. Everyone being the National Guard. It happened in a matter of seconds. There was silence and disbelief. Then chaos.

 
There is now evidence that an FBI paid informant fired the first shot. 
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Posted: May 6, 2012 - 8:16am

 ScottFromWyoming wrote:

Yeah sorry but if there's gunplay I'm for running away. People get hurt watching baseball games. But I guess the smoke in the photo probably is from some "pre-gunfire" shenanigans, nothing to fear.

 
What happened was that all of a sudden everyone was shooting. Everyone being the National Guard. It happened in a matter of seconds. There was silence and disbelief. Then chaos.
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Posted: May 6, 2012 - 8:00am

 ScottFromWyoming wrote:

Not to downplay the seriousness of that event but really that's not the kind of defensive posture one would expect to see when people are being fired upon.

 
Yeah, I would say it's before the shooting, except for the smoke. Or everyone was really stunned, there were a few moments of dead silence.
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Posted: May 6, 2012 - 7:57am

 ScottFromWyoming wrote:

Yeah sorry but if there's gunplay I'm for running away. People get hurt watching baseball games. But I guess the smoke in the photo probably is from some "pre-gunfire" shenanigans, nothing to fear.

 



Despite the fact they are in college people 18-22 don't always make the best/safest choice.



Not to imply that older people do. :)
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Posted: May 6, 2012 - 7:52am

 mzpro5 wrote:

The people whose backs you see were not the ones being fired on, but were a bit of a distance away.  There are some hills in that area and there were a number of "spectators" to what happened.

 
Yeah sorry but if there's gunplay I'm for running away. People get hurt watching baseball games. But I guess the smoke in the photo probably is from some "pre-gunfire" shenanigans, nothing to fear.
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Posted: May 6, 2012 - 7:30am

 ScottFromWyoming wrote:

Not to downplay the seriousness of that event but really that's not the kind of defensive posture one would expect to see when people are being fired upon.

 
The people whose backs you see were not the ones being fired on, but were a bit of a distance away.  There are some hills in that area and there were a number of "spectators" to what happened.
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Posted: May 6, 2012 - 7:21am

 hippiechick wrote:


I found this picture online yesterday, while looking at KSU stuff. This is exactly where I was standing during the shootings. 

 
Not to downplay the seriousness of that event but really that's not the kind of defensive posture one would expect to see when people are being fired upon.
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Posted: May 6, 2012 - 6:49am

 mzpro5 wrote:
75 years ago today, May 6, 1937, the hydrogen-filled German dirigible Hindenburg burned and crashed in Lakehurst, N.J., killing 36 of the 97 people on board.

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Having seen that footage many times, I always was amazed that any of the passengers survived.


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Posted: May 6, 2012 - 5:58am

75 years ago today, May 6, 1937, the hydrogen-filled German dirigible Hindenburg burned and crashed in Lakehurst, N.J., killing 36 of the 97 people on board.

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