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To: Menes

I think you’re correct. He said it lit up the entire western sky. People knew to expect weapons tests but of course he didn’t realize what he had seen until a month later.

He was a WWI vet who had been gassed and suffered lung damage. El Paso was considered a better climate for those with breathing difficulty than his native New Orleans.


83 posted on 01/20/2022 3:53:05 PM PST by Pelham (Q is short for quack )
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To: Pelham

Oh, how horrible to hear that. I am really sorry for him and the trouble he went through.:-(

Still it is fascinating for me - as a historian - to hear such stories from “the horse’s mouth”, instead of just reading about them in books.


92 posted on 01/20/2022 11:01:01 PM PST by Menes
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