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Beirut barracks bombing follows in the next month IIRC.

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I was in 4th grade.  I totally remember it, because until the USSR fell a lot of Asian and European airlines had crews based in Anchorage.  

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We also invaded Grenada the next month.

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It was a busy year.  For certain I think I spent most of that year on alert. At least it felt that way.

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Beirut barracks bombing follows in the next month IIRC.

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I was born on July 2nd, earlier in that year

ETA: Yes... I turned 29 yesterday.

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Among the passengers. Don't know why I remembered this;

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_McDonald
 

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"We have four boxes with which to defend our freedom: the soap box, the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box."


Interesting fellow, he was.

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I think he was one of the few people in Washington that actually cared about the nation and was probably not corrupt to the core.

McDonald hewed to a consistently conservative line on issues such as foreign policy, defense spending, fiscal restraint, States rights, Gun rights, and Pro-life, while mounting a campaigns that successfully combined modern elements with a more traditional grassroots strategy. It paid off in the fall; while many of his fellow Democrats succumbed to Republican opponents or switched parties, McDonald managed to retain his seat.

McDonald—who considered himself a traditional Democrat "cut from the cloth of Jefferson and Jackson"[6]—was known for his conservative views, even by Southern standards. Given his Old Right and Southern views he was more conservative than the Republican party. In fact, one scoring method published in the American Journal of Political Science[7] named him the second most conservative member of either chamber of Congress between 1937 and 2002 (behind only Ron Paul). The American Conservative Union gave him a perfect score of 100 every year he was in the House of Representatives, except in 1978, when he scored a 95.[9] He also scored "perfect or near perfect ratings" on the congressional scorecards of the National Right to Life Committee, Gun Owners of America, and the American Security Council.[10] Referred to by The New American as "the leading anti-Communist in Congress",[10] McDonald admired Senator Joseph McCarthy[11] and was a member of the Joseph McCarthy Foundation.[3] He took the communist threat seriously and considered it an international conspiracy. An admirer of Austrian economics and a member of the Ludwig von Mises Institute,[3] he was an advocate of tight monetary policy in the late 1970s to get the economy out of stagflation, and advocated returning to the gold standard.[12] McDonald called the welfare state a "disaster"[13] and favored phasing control of the Great Society programs over to the states to operate and run.[14] He also favored cuts to foreign aid, saying "To me, foreign aid is an area that you not only can cut but you could take a chainsaw to in terms of reductions."

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Well then you're exactly 29 years older than my new daughter!

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Know why the Russians shot down that KAL plane?
...... they were trying to impress Jodie Foster.
................................if you got that joke, you're officially an old fart!

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Just like the Turkish F4, KAL 007 showed that a pilot getting lost has consequences. I certainly don't justify shooting down civilian airliners, but happens and both aircraft where not in International airspace unlike the Iranian airbus the Navy got.

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Among the passengers. Don't know why I remembered this;

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_McDonald
 

"I personally believe that we don't need a lot more laws, I think we've got far too many laws on the books now, that's part of the problem. ... we don't need more government, more laws; we need a lot less. I'm up there [in Washington, D.C.] trying to dismantle a lot of this giant government. ... when you 'pass a law' with the current attitude in the Congress what do you get in a law today? You get either more spending, or more taxes, or more controls. ... which do you want? Do you want more spending? I think we've got too much. Do you want more taxes? I think we're taxed too heavily now. Do you want more controls over your life? Does anybody say 'Hey look, I really believe the federal government needs to control me. I want to be a slave. Please tell me how to run every facet of my life.' I don't hear many people saying that. I think most people say 'I think it's time we get the government off our backs, and out of our pockets.'"

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He would've got my vote.

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Sophmore.

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I was born on July 2nd, earlier in that year

ETA: Yes... I turned 29 yesterday.

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I happened to be on a Herk flying down to Panama(Howard AFB) on an overnight flight.  We landed early in the morning and while we were checking in to Billeting we saw this news on the tv in the billeting office.  Talking about shock.  Unfortunately the next morning very early had to fly to Honduras where we spent the next month flying around that country and other places!     So wasn't around any good news media to catch all the happenings live.

That was the time they were building up the airfield at Palmerola AB to eventually become Soto Cano Air Base.  Luckily instead of living in tent city there we were staying at the capital of Honduras, Tegucigalpa.  And their best hotel too!  Pool, casino, etc.

Any Army guys remember those days?