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A largish building gets imploded in Baytown. Wish I had heard of the implosion earlier, I might have gotten up to get stuck in traffic and watch it.
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Blessings, and stay cool!
It looked like a reasonably designed building. It didn’t look to be in a congested area. Why not just remodel?
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Another building in the Houston area gone.
I remember how sad it was when they imploded the Macy’s, formerly Foley’s department store building in downtown Houston. That was truly the end of an era.
D-Day: Combat Stories From The Men of the 101st Airborne - American Veteran’s Center
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGY3rY2bKIc
Colonel Edward “Ed” Shames, the last surviving officer of Easy Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division. A unit that would be made famous by the miniseries Band of Brothers.
Private Thomas M. Rice, after 18 months of training, he joined the 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment (PIR) of the legendary 101st Airborne Division and was shipped overseas to participate in the D-Day invasion. Tom Rice would spend a total of 336 days in combat participating in Operation Overlord, Operation Market Garden, The Battle of the Bulge, and helping to capture Hitler’s Eagle’s Nest in Berchtesgaden.
PFC Jim “Pee Wee” Martin, One of Colonel Sink’s original “Toccoa Men”, James Martin joined the now famous 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment at Camp Toccoa in July, 1942. Martin parachuted into Normandy (landing near Saint-Côme-du-Mont behind Utah Beach) at 12:30 AM on June 6, 1944. “Pee Wee” Martin fought in the Normandy campaign for thirty-three days until the 101st Airborne was relieved and returned to England in July.