Tomorrow in history - April 16
On April 16, 1947, the French ship Grandcamp blew up at the harbor in Texas City, Texas; another ship, the Highflyer, exploded the following day. The blasts and resulting fires killed 576 people.
(We've talked about this explosion on TM before when the BASF guard was shot in Freeport)
2004 One year ago: Videotape broadcast on the Arab TV station Al-Jazeera showed Army Pvt. 1st Class Keith M. Maupin, abducted during an attack on a fuel truck convoy near Baghdad a week earlier. (Arab television reported June 29, 2004, that Maupin had been killed; he is listed as missing by the U.S. military.)
***Still praying for Pvt. Maupin***
"***Still praying for Pvt. Maupin***"
Ditto and Amen.