[SandRat]

SOUTHWEST ASIA (AFPN) -- A 2,000-pound New Year's Eve Ball lights up the sky over this desert base. The ball, sculpted from a sewage tank, was the work of 379th Expeditionary Civil Engineering Squadron. They built it in about 72 hours. It was suspended approximately 100 feet in the air and lowered from a crane as the crowd counted down the seconds until 2006. (U.S. Air Force photo)

[SandRat]

Can't go to Times Square? Bring Times Square to You!

[Thinkin' Gal]

The ball, sculpted from a sewage tank...

[MS.BEHAVIN]

What a great story!
BUMP!
Ms.B

[ExcursionGuy84]

Is there anything that our Armed Forces CANNOT do Better than Home-turf civilians?

[aculeus]

Alexander Haig, a military adviser to Kennedy and Johnson who became secretary of state in 1981, said in the film that Johnson was terrified his people would learn the truth.

"He [Johnson] said 'we simply must not allow the American people to believe that Fidel Castro could have killed our president'.

"And the reason was that there would be a Right-wing uprising in America, which would keep the Democratic party out of power for two generations."

[bannie]

This I love! There's nothing like a soldier to make things work.

[Calpernia]

Absolutely creative! I love it!