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2 hours ago, Walt Longmire said:

Mt St Helens changed my life and that of my family on May 18th at 8:32 am.

Were ya living there then?  That's my Birthday...

I flew over Mt. St. Helens  the year after.  Never got the magnitude of it till I saw it from the air....

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41 minutes ago, gwalchmai said:

I was at Sheppard AFB in 1980 during the big heat wave.

That was a year after six tornadoes tried to flatten the town. Remember all the bare foundations all over town?

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Just now, JMag said:

Miracle in Lake Placid...we beat the (professional)Ruskies in Olympic hockey; changed the decade, which was a good one.


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I’ll never forget watching that game. 

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In 1980 i was living in Orlando, FL.  Dad was stationed at the the navy base there.  I was eight. Yeah, i'm not history...just yet.

What a interesting decade that was.  

The music alone is worth the decade.

I once worked with one of the hostages from the Iranian embassy.   He was the only person not decorated for his service.

And i won't say a thing about him other than that....ever.

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55 minutes ago, Historian said:

In 1980 i was living in Orlando, FL.  Dad was stationed at the the navy base there.  I was eight. Yeah, i'm not history...just yet.

What a interesting decade that was.  

The music alone is worth the decade.

I once worked with one of the hostages from the Iranian embassy.   He was the only person not decorated for his service.

And i won't say a thing about him other than that....ever.

Named after a bay in the P.I.?

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11 hours ago, Eric said:

That was a year after six tornadoes tried to flatten the town. Remember all the bare foundations all over town?

I was stationed at Sheppard for three years, but had left before 1980. I remember we would sit on top of the BOQ's drinking adult beverages and watch the tornadoes bounce across southern OK .

Before I got there a tornado had completely taken out the Base Hospital.

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