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Steel City Slim Donating Member (410 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-29-05 09:02 AM
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July 29, 1967
38 years ago today, 29 July 1967, the aircraft carrier USS Forrestal (CVA-59) exploded and burned while operating on Yankee Station in the Gulf of Tonkin off the coast of North Vietnam. 134 good men were lost that day. Some were my friends, all were my shipmates. Please help remember those brave young men by going to: http://www.lancehatfield.com/tonkin.htm
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Rainbowreflect Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-29-05 09:45 AM
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1. Thank you!
I watched a show on this last week. Very sad, so many brave men lost.
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f97red Donating Member (5 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-09-05 07:28 PM
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2. Remerbering the FID
I was in B School in Norfolk when she limped home. The sight of that twisted hunk of metal is forever burned into my brain. I still get chillbumpbs remembering that site and trying to imagine the hell you guys endured while saving her. What a testament to the courage, skill and fortitude of her crew. It was truly a miracle she made it back.
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