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To: Grampa Dave; BlackbirdSST
20 years ago this August, my sons and I were deer hunting

A similar thing happened to me 40 years ago. I was hunting deer in the Northern part of lower Michigan.
A B-58 did a supersonic run very close to tree top level.
I had to return to camp for clean long johns.

By the way I didn't see either of those two blackbirds that weren't in Oki in the 60's.

25 posted on 06/03/2004 6:33:18 AM PDT by ASA Vet (The "FreeRepublic French" would rather our grandchildren decide which culture is to survive.)
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To: ASA Vet

"A similar thing happened to me 40 years ago. I was hunting deer in the Northern part of lower Michigan. A B-58 did a supersonic run very close to tree top level. I had to return to camp for clean long johns."

As usual, I can't comment on what you post. However, in August, fortunately, we weren't wearing long johns even on the coast in N. California.


33 posted on 06/03/2004 6:42:24 AM PDT by Grampa Dave ( With close to 300 million Americans, why did Moore interview Berg in December 2003?)
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To: ASA Vet
A B-58 did a supersonic run very close to tree top level.

Same happened to me in 1962, right smack in the middle of the Cuban Missile Crisis (the day after Kennedy gave the ultimatum, I think). Most folks thought WWIII was about to begin at any minute.

I was sitting in the middle of a high school class when one of the local ANG F-102's punched the after burners right over the city. (They were allowed to do that then and the Air Force just paid for any broken windows.) Kids were diving under their desks and some of the girls started crying.

It's funny thinking back on it now. I'd heard sonic booms many times before that, but that one really was memorable. ;~))

110 posted on 06/03/2004 12:07:20 PM PDT by Ditto ( No trees were killed in sending this message, but billions of electrons were inconvenienced.)
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