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Having been at Ft. McNair, DC, the memory is seared in my mind. I could see the smoke rising from the Pentagon all day. The fort was “closed” and no one was permited to enter or leave it until 5pm. Fortunately the South Capitol Bridge was open by then, thus I was able to get across the Anacostia River and on to home.

My Army civilian job as a historian had me in the Pentagon itself several times a week. I had been in the Army G-1’s office on the previous week on business, thus had met with all of the folks who were killed that day from the airliner’s impact.

Having been at Ft. McNair, DC, the memory is seared in my mind. I could see the smoke rising from the Pentagon all day. The fort was “closed” and no one was permited to enter or leave it until 5pm. Fortunately the South Capitol Bridge was open by then, thus I was able to get across the Anacostia River and on to home.

My Army civilian job as a historian had me in the Pentagon itself several times a week. I had been in the Army G-1’s office on the previous week on business, thus had met with all of the folks who were killed that day from the airliner’s impact.

Thanks.

Thanks.

I have no idea about “rickyism,” unless it is related to “I Love Lucy,” but ok. I’m an old fashioned military historian, and we have enough in dealing with the names of locations that have changed over the centuries, due to conquering and/or changes in translation....Peiping vs Peking, for example.

And then there is 1 ton soup that is hard to change into metric.

I concure, “Ontario” is its historic name, let it be.

U.S. Air Base near Camp Springs, MD, is better known as Andrews AFB.

I came close to Heinlein’s quote. I enlisted as a PFC (E-3) because I had my BA in history. 6 years later, as a SSG on the SFC list, I received a direct commission as Captain (O-3) and retired as a Major after 20 years

Viceroy is probably out because of the connection to British empire rule.

meanwhile, back in Great Britain, Black/African folks speak perfect English, especially those raised in that country.

The M-16A1 I carried was rather light when compared to the M-1 Garand and especially compared to the Thompson sub-machine gun. The old M-3 “Grease Gun” was a tad lighter than the M-16.

The M-16A1 I carried was rather light when compared to the M-1 Garand and especially compared to the Thompson sub-machine gun. The old M-3 “Grease Gun” was a tad lighter than the M-16.

My thought was to send King Kong to bring them down, without 1930s bi-planes shooting at him and the climbers.

My thought was to send King Kong to bring them down, without 1930s bi-planes shooting at him and the climbers.

DFG, thank you for posting this.

Interesting Times, I think Ben would have been interested in this.

Cheers,
GreyFriar

back when I lived in DC 20+ years ago, Pulti Homes was a major housing developer and builder for the “greater DC” metro area.

Time Team TV show has covered this find and have covered it in their monthly videos.

https://www.timeteamdigital.com/news/dna-breakthrough-reveals-anglo-saxon-brother-and-sister-double-burial

I’ve never been satisfied that it was an accidental attack.

However, the USS Liberty was NOT sunk, it was severely damaged, towed back to the US, and sold for scrap in 1973.

I’m 78, but can still do an intel job (96B & later a intel officer) from a desk or be an Army historian, since I once held the “35” Army ASI and spent 23 years as an Army civilian historian.

Ah yes, Freddy FADAC. Ours spent more time in the maintenance shop than it did in the field with us at Ft. Knox. A few years later I was with 1st Cav DivArty during the field trials for TACFIRE. It was a good system.