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Extreme VANITY/Where were you and what were you doing when you heard of JFK's Assasination?
19 Nov 2013 | US Navy Vet

Posted on 11/19/2013 7:43:13 AM PST by US Navy Vet

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To: mabarker1; blam; big'ol_freeper
Re: but ejection seat, seat pack and parachute missing - pilot never found. - Beamed out by a UFO from Bermuda Triangle?

More times than we like to think, this happens. Especially with the U-2 in a flat spin, the pilot punches out and is knocked out or there is damage to his parachute/seat pack/ejection seat which causes him to fall to his death, sink quickly and not be found ever.

141 posted on 11/19/2013 10:55:29 AM PST by Bender2 ("I've got a twisted sense of humor, and everything amuses me." RAH Beyond this Horizon)
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To: Bender2
"Assume above the one but they don't mention Castro shooting it down. Says 'failure of autopilot' to fault. "

Yup. We never found the pilot, the seat or anything like that.

142 posted on 11/19/2013 10:59:31 AM PST by blam
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To: US Navy Vet
This is a great way to get an idea of how old everyone is.

I was at recess at Silver King Elementary School near Kellogg, Idaho. Everyone was repeating the news as recess ended. Mrs. Woolum, my second-grade teacher, confirmed the news and told us that we were being sent home.

143 posted on 11/19/2013 11:08:57 AM PST by CommerceComet (Enough with politicians, this conservative is only voting for someone with courage and conviction.)
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To: topsail; Allegra; big'ol_freeper; Lil'freeper; shove_it; TrueKnightGalahad; Cincinatus' Wife; ...
Re: I was an EM1 aboard the USS Coral Sea (CVA-43), just beginning my 2nd enlistment. We were North of Hawaii, in heavy swells, enroute from Sasebo to our home port, Alameda. Due to the heavy swells, we lost an F3H “screaming demon”and tow tractor off the hangar deck, through the #3 elevator door.

Above photo shows F3H “screaming demon”and tow tractor on Coral Sea: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cd/XF3H_Demon_on_USS_Coral_Sea_%28CVA-43%29_in_1953.jpg,P> From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell_F3H_Demon

"The McDonnell F3H Demon was a subsonic swept-wing United States Navy carrier-based jet fighter aircraft. After severe problems with the Westinghouse J40 engine that was ultimately abandoned, the successor to the McDonnell F2H Banshee served starting in 1956 redesigned with the J71 engine.[1] Though it lacked sufficient power for supersonic performance, it complemented daylight dogfighters such as the Vought F8U Crusader and Grumman F11F Tiger as an all-weather, missile-armed interceptor[2] until 1964. It was withdrawn before it could serve in Vietnam when it, and ultimately also the Crusader, was replaced by the extremely successful McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II. McDonnell's Phantom, which was equally capable against ground, fighter and bomber targets, bears a strong family resemblance, as it was conceived as an advanced development of the Demon. The supersonic United States Air Force McDonnell F-101 Voodoo was similar in layout, but was derived from the earlier XF-88 Voodoo, which also influenced the Demon's layout."

And old Navy pard of mine said he was so very glad to see the “screaming demon” retired as it was... in fact a real dog suffering from frequent flame outs, compressor stalls and the ejection seats were unreliable, a death sentence if you had to punch out.

144 posted on 11/19/2013 11:12:29 AM PST by Bender2 ("I've got a twisted sense of humor, and everything amuses me." RAH Beyond this Horizon)
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To: US Navy Vet

I was Supply Officer aboard USS Interdictor(AGR13) at Treasure Island, CA. Had just held special pay for crew as I was going on leave. When I walked into wardroom the rest of the ship’s officers were sitting in front of blank TV, audio only. I asked what had happened to the broadcast of “Captain Kangaroo” that they normally watched. Was advised that president had been shot and it dawned on me that the audio was Walter Cronkite talking and that they didn’t know if Kennedy was alive or dead.


145 posted on 11/19/2013 11:14:31 AM PST by Nuocmam
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To: Rebelbase
I was 3 years and 2 mos. old. I remember being at “Mr. & Mrs. Brown's house” - they would take me for an hour or so once in awhile. I guess so my mom could run errands. I liked having lunch there as I would have a twinkie for desert, something I never got at home.

I recall when my mom got there that she and Mrs. Brown were talking and very upset. And then vaguely remember seeing something on TV when we got home.

146 posted on 11/19/2013 11:22:18 AM PST by 21twelve (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts 2013 is 1933 REBORN)
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To: US Navy Vet

I was newly assigned to Japan. It was on the AFRTS Saturday morning news at 0700. A Japanese maid in the BOQ woke me up...crying that the president had been killed. She was beside herself! The rest of the day Japanese around me could only say GOMINASAI....(I’m sorry...many crying).


147 posted on 11/19/2013 11:25:28 AM PST by Wolverine (A Concerned Citizen)
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To: US Navy Vet

It was a Friday afternoon. A schoolgirl stuck her head into my 4th-grade classroom and announced that the president had been shot. It seemed surreal, because none of us kids could relate to assassinations except for Abraham Lincoln.

By pure accident, my mom was stuck in traffic three blocks behind Kennedy’s motorcade as she tried to cross Dallas. She was trapped in traffic for hours.

I recall that all the TV channels broadcast nothing but news coverage for three days straight. I was upset because there were no cartoons on TV during that time!


148 posted on 11/19/2013 11:26:04 AM PST by TexasRepublic (Socialism is the gospel of envy and the religion of thieves)
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To: topsail

“I was an EM1 aboard the USS Coral Sea (CVA-43), just beginning my 2nd enlistment.”

After his death, were you put on any type of higher alert? Just curious. I imagine you would have been in during the Cuban Missile Crisis? An old friend of mine said that was a REAL scary time.


149 posted on 11/19/2013 11:26:43 AM PST by 21twelve (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts 2013 is 1933 REBORN)
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To: US Navy Vet

That was when I learned that grownups will say one thing in front of some people, and something completely different in front of other people. My parents were so sad and worried while with our neighbors, but when it was just them, family, and close friends, “thank you, God.”


150 posted on 11/19/2013 11:32:59 AM PST by Born to Conserve
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To: Bender2
I was hoping for a better option for Him.
Dangerous job.

RIP Capt. Hyde, Jr. Thank You for Your Service Sir.

151 posted on 11/19/2013 11:34:11 AM PST by mabarker1 (Please, Somebody Impeach the kenyan!!!!)
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To: US Navy Vet

1st Iinfantry, Fort Riley.


152 posted on 11/19/2013 11:34:54 AM PST by oldsicilian
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I was in Jr High in Ft Worth Texas ...I later attended the same High School Oswald went to.

Kennedy had come through Ft Worth the day before.

I did not go to see him
A few years laterI I snuck into the “Cellar”
That was the dive the Secret service guys had gone to the night before,


153 posted on 11/19/2013 11:43:49 AM PST by woofie
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To: JRandomFreeper

“About 6 meters from where I sit now.”

What direction?


154 posted on 11/19/2013 11:43:52 AM PST by Born to Conserve
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To: Born to Conserve
280.

/johnny

155 posted on 11/19/2013 11:45:56 AM PST by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: Bender2

AH I wans’t blink in my parents eyes

I think Mafia whack JFK


156 posted on 11/19/2013 11:52:21 AM PST by SevenofNine (We are Freepers, all your media bases belong to us ,resistance is futile)
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To: Born to Conserve
My Grandmother (Wellesley, class of 1922) was upset that TV coverage the Game was pre-empted, eight days later. "There are other people than the Kennedys, you know."
157 posted on 11/19/2013 12:10:17 PM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Doing the same thing and expecting different results is called software engineering.)
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To: US Navy Vet

I was still a gleam in my dad’s eye.


158 posted on 11/19/2013 12:11:26 PM PST by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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To: US Navy Vet

I was in the third grade when the principal came to the door and talked to our teacher (nun). The teacher was distraught and walked to the blackboard and wrote that JFK had been assassinated and was dead. She said the country was in deep trouble as Lyndon Johnson would take over and he was a communist. Never truer words were spoken. Class was dismissed early and we went home. Was getting ready to depart for church on Sunday when Oswald was shot on TV. Still went to church with the family.


159 posted on 11/19/2013 12:26:00 PM PST by double_down
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To: 21twelve

21twelve,

Out in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, there was no change in our regular steaming readiness condition announced to the crew. I’m guessing that there probably was an increased level of awareness at the upper level of command.


160 posted on 11/19/2013 1:27:32 PM PST by topsail
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