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Posted on 01/16/2018 5:36:21 PM PST by freedomson
At about 8:20 pm Tuesday January 16, 2018 Did any of you Detroit freepers see that flash of light followed about two minutes later with a window rattling shockwave?
“July 1948, first flights of the Berlin Airlift.
After forty minutes over the Soviet Zone, they began to descend into Berlin. The voice of Tempelhof’s tower came over the radio to guide them. Up ahead loomed the city. As they approached, the view, Halvorsen remembered, “just about took our breath away. Nothing I had read, heard, or seen prepared me for the desolate, ravaged sight below.” It was, William Shirer wrote after seeing Berlin from up in a plane, “a great wilderness of debris, dotted with roofless, burned-out buildings...”
...A few days later, Halvorsen would write home — after having by then seen the honey-combed city a dozen times — and he still could not come to grips with what he saw below. “Berlin is a shell of a city. I think how easily it would be for Detroit, New York, or any U.S. city to look the same way...”
In 1948, Mr. Halvorsen clearly did not have an appreciation for the destructive power of the Democrat Party. It far exceeded the 8th Air Force.”
Worthy of being repeated again, and again, and again.
Thank you for telling this story.
Sure. Forgot the citation: “The Candy Bombers: The Untold Story of the Berlin Airlift and America’s Finest Hour,” by Andrei Cherny.
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It’s just the sound of the BOOMing economy, heard even over Michigan now.
Or...
It was the lost satellite from the failed Tesla launch a couple of weeks ago finally coming down.
Nothing on your dashcam?
“Sure. Forgot the citation: “The Candy Bombers: The Untold Story of the Berlin Airlift and America’s Finest Hour,” by Andrei Cherny.”
Thank you. I was going to search for the original documentation. You saved me the time.
Heard it here in Oakland county! Saw one a few weeks ago in Ann Arbor too!
Excellent video of a bright moving object that exploded. I wonder if it could have been anything other than a meteor.
There was also one in a northern suburb of Denver just the other night, IIRC.
Hmmm...
I’m reading it now — I highly recommend it. I was born in 1951, so too young to remember it myself, but it is an amazing story. I had no idea the stand-off in Berlin instigated by the Russians in 1948 put us on the brink of WW III. The beginning of the Cold War had east and west jockeying for position and the Soviets were definitely in the lead, having gobbled up all of Eastern and Central Europe in the three short years after the war.
I’m reading the book now; about half-way through, and just read that passage a couple hours ago. It stuck in my mind.
Ice.
Only thing on my dashboard is an old Android and some dust
There was a flash of light followed by a power flicker last night in the Omaha are people were talking about today.
“I’m reading it now — I highly recommend it. I was born in 1951, so too young to remember it myself, but it is an amazing story. I had no idea the stand-off in Berlin instigated by the Russians in 1948 put us on the brink of WW III. The beginning of the Cold War had east and west jockeying for position and the Soviets were definitely in the lead, having gobbled up all of Eastern and Central Europe in the three short years after the war.
I’m reading the book now; about half-way through, and just read that passage a couple hours ago. It stuck in my mind.”
Sounds like a great read.
It is something when you read a passage and later something jars it from you mind exactly where it was stuck. :-)
I have not heard that verbiage in years. Are you from the south?
Got lots of peeps in Michigan...meteor...flash and boom...probably ended up in Canada.
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