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Airplan: 5-11 Sep

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Several years back I had the extraordinary privilege to get to know a survivor of the Pearl Harbor attack who had been assigned to one of the gun turret crews onboard the USS Nevada (BB-36).  As a junior "hinge" (O-4/LCDR) I was both captivated by the re-telling, first hand, of the accounts of that morning, and…

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  1. “Questions I know the answer to I don’t need to ask, right?”

    I’d like to think I try to live my life by those words. 😉

  2. SJS,

    For me it was a barn and a “glider.” Yes I can relate. It’s always better to ask forgiveness than permission.

  4. Presaged the base jumpers by a good decade or two – knotted bedsheet w/running start down the roof from the 2nd story. It didn’t work…at least I missed the rose bushes, but not the, um, dog leavings – entirely.
    – SJS

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