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JoePhilly

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38. I was flying from CA to Dallas on biz when McVeigh blew up ...

Mon Dec 14, 2015, 09:48 PM

Dec 2015

... the building Oklahoma.

I was connecting in Dallas, and headed to Raleigh.

Dallas had bad weather, so we circled for hours. I think we flew to San Antonio for fuel. Then back to Dallas.

So I missed my connection. It was so late, I spent the night in the Dallas airport. And I spent that night watching the CNN coverage of the blast.

I had just returned to graduate school in Texas when Shuttle Challenger blew up.

I was on a biz trip to London when the Tiananmen Square protests occurred.

I was at a conference in Denver when the CA earth quake in 89 occurred.

On vacation in PA when Princess Di, was killed in a car accident (ok, not like the others).

On vacation in the Mt of Tennessee when the shuttle Columbia burned up.

I'm forgetting a few.

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