I was with Lyndon LaRouche viewing CNN in a television room at the Federal Medical Center, Rochester, Minnesota. Ah, the good old days... NOT!
I believe I was at work. I remember all of the yellow ribbons and flag pins everyone was wearing. It was somewhat surreal, knowing what was happening so far away. I remember being so proud of our brave military.
Manning-up an F/A-18A at Shaikh Isa AB, Bahrain for the first daylight strike.
Well I don’t remember a thing about that day.. ‘Twas a few weeks short of my 2nd birthday :p
I was on USS St Louis (LKA-116) at Subic for REFTRA. I think we were the only forward deployed Seventh Fleet ship that didn’t go the Gulf.
I was checking my class material for US Army Sergeant Major Academy. I had two large shipments of books and reading material when the wife came and told me to come watch the news.
I was sitting in a bunker in korea wearing full chem gear praying north korea wasn’t going to use it as an opportunity
A friend of mine (we were roommates in high school) is a retired Marine (a colonel) wrote this on Monday, his birthday, on his Facebook page:
"Tonite I toast the boys of TF Shepherd. 20 years since we rolled North to the Kuwaiti border. Best birthday I ever had. It was an honor rolling with every one of you.
Semper Fi brothers"
The initial Kuwait invasion by Iraq occured as I was leading a Boy Scout High Adventure group off into the Boundry Waters. When we returned to civilization’s media coverage ten days later, the UN resolution had been pushed through by GHWB and we awaited the confrontation that was to come about 20 years ago this month.
working backstage at a Niel young concert at West Point.....
I had CNN on, Bernard Shaw was in Baghdad but not on the air; suddenly the fill-in (I don’t remember who it was) said that Shaw was hollering in his earpiece to come to him, NOW. Shaw and his colleague shot the scene out the hotel window, the triple-A and various US bomb detonations in the city.
I was stationed in Japan, at FEN-Tokyo, and I worked the overnight shift at the radio station. We had a TV monitor in the studio and I had the TV on all night and watched it inbetween spinning records.
Onboard USS AMERICA (CV-66), location, Red Sea.
it might not have been the first day, but I was in
a blood donation center watching their TV very soon
after. which reminds me, I’ve overdue to donate again.
I believe I was hitting it.