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KTPhil 
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 Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2022 11:45 am Post subject: Re: This day in history |
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| What struck me was the silence, save for the hoofs. Crowds like that always had loud cheering and waving. Their silence and motionlessness made that sound so eerie and somber, even is I didn't really understand. |
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Fish
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| Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2022 12:57 pm Post subject: Re: This day in history |
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I was 4 at the time and while I do remember some of what was shown on tv, the thing I remember most was the thought that it was the same thing on every channel.
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KTPhil
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| Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2022 2:59 pm Post subject: Re: This day in history |
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| Fish wrote: |
| I was 4 at the time and while I do remember some of what was shown on tv, the thing I remember most was the thought that it was the same thing on every channel. |
All five of them, right?
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| Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2022 3:33 pm Post subject: Re: This day in history |
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remember it purdy good I was in the 6th grade
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| Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2022 10:21 pm Post subject: Re: This day in history |
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I was 3. When Camelot ended.
We haven't experienced that kind of togetherness, since Kennedy's assassination.
I remember the funeral procession well. We watched on a grainy B&W tv.
Even at 3 yo. I felt it was a sad time for our Nation.
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Jacks
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| Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2022 5:57 am Post subject: Re: This day in history |
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5 short years later, we relived it all over again
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| Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2022 7:29 am Post subject: Re: This day in history |
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I was in elementary school (Pittsburgh), teacher had the TV on PBS for a science show and an announcer broke in and said JFK was shot and wounded. A few minutes later the principal sent everyone home. Neighbor kid came over, was wearing a JFK sweatshirt.
Next day's newspaper detailed the assassination; tiny 1-sentence article on the bottom of the front page simply read "JFK, Lodge to meet" (Henry Cabot Lodge).
I was in Dallas right by there in 1987, we walked over, before the museum was open. Road is severely slope, and motorcade route was altered a day before so traffic actually was traveling "wrong way". The slope of the roadway explains why a single bullet lines up perfectly with hitting both JFK and Connally. I believe it was a circumstance of fortune that enabled Oswald to bring his "curtain rods" to the depository that day to take advantage of the last-minute change to the route.
"Conspiracies" are very difficult to plan and carry out but folks prefer to think that a dislodged person can do so much damage.....
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| Posted: Sat Dec 03, 2022 5:00 am Post subject: Re: This day in history |
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The text message is celebrating its 30th birthday - the first was sent to a mobile phone by a Vodafone engineer in Berkshire in the UK on 3 December 1992.
It was sent in order to test out the tech, and read "Merry Christmas".
Neil Papworth sent it to one of the firm's bosses, Richard Jarvis, who was at a Christmas party. He did not get a reply.
Mr Jarvis's phone, a new-to-the-market Orbitel 901, weighed 2.1kg - roughly the same as 12 standard iPhone 14s.
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| Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2022 10:48 am Post subject: Re: This day in history |
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Japan awoke a Sleeping Giant.
RIP all those from WWII.
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Thank goodness we had a super secret weapon called the Navajo Code Talkers. Imagine without them we all would be speaking Japanese.
I retired from Navajo County Arizona. They are highly respected people who served us quite well. UGG
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| Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2022 4:10 pm Post subject: Re: This day in history |
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| Abscate wrote: |
Japan awoke a Sleeping Giant.
RIP all those from WWII. |
Both grandfathers were in the service then, one at Pearl Harbor on the 7th. One was Navy (Destroyers), the other Marine (Pilot).Both came back from the Pacific; a comment decades later from the Marine was "A lot of my friends died, and every day I am alive is a bonus I didn't expect."
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| Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2022 4:53 pm Post subject: Re: This day in history |
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| gt1953 wrote: |
Thank goodness we had a super secret weapon called the Navajo Code Talkers. Imagine without them we all would be speaking Japanese.
I retired from Navajo County Arizona. They are highly respected people who served us quite well. UGG |
I think USA would've won WW2 anyway, maybe would've taken a little longer. But the Navajo code talkers were real heroes for sure, the Japanese could not break the code. The 2002 film "Windtalkers" described their exploits.
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Fish
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Dad was telling me about where he was when he heard the news. He was in Ohio and they had just walked out of church when someone came running up with the news. He was 16 and enlisted two years later. He turns 97 in a couple of weeks.
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| Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2022 8:53 am Post subject: Re: This day in history |
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| Dad was telling me about where he was when he heard the news. He was in Ohio and they had just walked out of church when someone came running up with the news. He was 16 and enlisted two years later. He turns 97 in a couple of weeks. |
My dad never told us where he was when he heard the news, he was 18. He enlisted in the Army Air Corps and was stationed in England and then continental Europe, became a sergeant. He never said a word about what he did in the war.
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What I have read in the past is that the U.S. estimated another 200,000 allied casualties if we had to go with a ground war in Japan. The bomb appears to have been the right decision if that is true.
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| Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2022 3:49 pm Post subject: Re: This day in history |
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John Lennon was shot and killed in New York City on this day in history, Dec. 8, 1980.
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KTPhil
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| Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2022 10:30 pm Post subject: Re: This day in history |
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| HMVWNAB wrote: |
| John Lennon was shot and killed in New York City on this day in history, Dec. 8, 1980. |
Talk about "the day the music died."  |
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Abscate
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| Posted: Fri Dec 09, 2022 2:50 am Post subject: Re: This day in history |
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| John Lennon was shot and killed in New York City on this day in history, Dec. 8, 1980. |
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| Posted: Fri Dec 09, 2022 12:50 pm Post subject: Re: This day in history |
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| Bonesberg55 wrote: |
| What I have read in the past is that the U.S. estimated another 200,000 casualties if we had to go with a ground war in Japan. The bomb appears to have been the right decision if that is true. |
Civilians were hurling themselves and their children off of the cliffs of Okinawa during US landings due to their government's brainwashing. Meanwhile a different government was holding Okinawan US citizens behind razor wire while their sons battled Nazis in Europe. |
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