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  • Doolittle's Nbr 13

    01/03/2011 10:29:01 AM PST · by Don Corleone · 16 replies · 1+ views
    e-mail | Mac McElroy LTC. USAF (Deceased)
    It was an exciting time for us. My unit was the first to receive the new B-25 medium bomber. When I saw it for the first time I was in awe. It looked so huge. It was so sleek and powerful. The guys started calling it the "rocket plane", and I could hardly wait to get my hands on it.
  • Letter from the USS George Washington

    05/28/2004 8:55:54 AM PDT · by cgk · 30 replies · 2,997+ views
    email | 5-26-04 | cgk & a sailor
    Wanted to share this letter with FR. This is an email from one of our 4 adopted sailors/soldiers. thanks for the package. i shared it with a few of the guys in my berthing. we all appericate the gifts alot. i wanted to personaly say thanks and how much i appericate the package. sometimes it does seem like we are out here and no one back home remembers us. when someone like ya'll speak out we all know that we are not forgotten. I am a 20 year vet, retiring next march. i am an electrican by trade but also...
  • September 11, 2001: A World Trade Center Survivor's Account

    09/11/2003 5:23:37 AM PDT · by slomark · 25 replies · 548+ views
    Hollywood Halfwits ^ | 09/11/03 | Tilly
    This is when the explosion came. It progressed down the building, breaking the windows as it went; the entire building was groaning, an unnatural, unearthly sound, much like a can squeezing, or cracking uncooked spaghetti. By the time it reached the lobby, the marble veneer was cracking and falling off the walls; the chandeliers shattered on the floors along with the plaster ceiling, and the force imploded in at about 50 mph, pulling metal, balled safety glass, and other material with it. The pipes were bursting over my head and dense materials were flying around me as if they were...