Posted on 09/02/2008 7:56:11 AM PDT by SilvieWaldorfMD
It has been 25 years since Korean Airlines Flight 007, carrying 269 passengers and crew, including Congressman Larry McDonald of Georgia, was fired on by a Soviet fighter jet off the coast of Siberia. At the time, McDonald was chairman of the John Birch Society (a subsidiary of which publishes THE NEW AMERICAN).
Although several speakers eulogized McDonald at a Washington, D.C., memorial service 10 days following the September 1, 1983 attack, the words most remembered by both this magazines editor, Gary Benoit, and this writer were delivered by the late Senator Jesse Helms, who passed away on July 4. Senator Helms, along with Senator Steve Symms of Idaho and Representative Carroll Hubbard, Jr. of Kentucky, were headed for the same conference in Seoul, South Korea, as was Congressman McDonald, but on a different plane (KAL 015). Both planes, flying on schedules just minutes apart, stopped at Anchorage, Alaska, for refueling, and passengers from each could deplane and stretch their legs. McDonald decided to stay onboard, but Senator Helms opted to visit the terminal, where he mingled with passengers from the doomed KAL 007. During the layover, Helms met two little girls who were passengers on McDonalds plane, Noel Anne Grenfell, five, and her sister Stacy Marie, three. The senator spoke about the encounter to the 4,000 people gathered at the McDonald memorial service, and often again in the years that followed:
"Ill never forget that night when that plane was just beside ours at Anchorage airport with two little girls and their parents. I taught them, among other things, to say I love you in deaf [sign] language, and the last thing they did when they turned the corner was stick up their little hands and tell me they loved me."
(Excerpt) Read more at thenewamerican.com ...
Read post #20.
Here is my review of that History Channel Documentary
http://www.rescue007.org/documentary_review.htm
Joe (and Sylvie), sorry I addressed my posting to the wrong person. I thought that Sylvie was the person aboard the Sterrett instead of Joe. I try to follow KAL 007 matters wherever it pops up, especially what conservatives say or think as they usually have more accurate assessment and possibly connections to do something. Anyway,Joe, the fellow seaman aboard your ship, the Sterrett during the Search and Rescue (Salvage) was Don Downing CWO3. The article by him above, which is published in Conservapedia tells of the experience of the Russian attempt to disrupt the South Korean search by sinking the buoy, and their continued attempt at sinking even after the South Korean sailors attached themselves to it. If you would have anything else to add to this event or would like to tell of any other event during the search, we would publish it on our site.Finally, if you would have time and desire, we would appreciate your reading this http://www.rescue007.org/ruse.htm and this http://www.rescue007.org/photo_essay.htm and return any comments to us. An eyewitness of these events adds very precious information and insights.
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