Author Topic: Crashing for a good cause (Read 522 times)

Chairboy · « **Reply #15 on:** December 14, 2004, 03:53:53 PM »

I suppose we can now say that Spit is doomed to repeat history?

SLO · « **Reply #16 on:** December 14, 2004, 09:52:04 PM »

Canada to the rescue:D

Gunslinger · « **Reply #17 on:** December 14, 2004, 09:58:44 PM »

I hope the air crew survived that crash. I've seen a C-130 take off with RATOs and it was a sight. Never seen one land in 300 ft though.

Gyro/T69 · « **Reply #18 on:** December 15, 2004, 12:16:27 AM »

Sometime after the Russians rolled into Afghanistan, a political cartoon about the hostages in Iran was published in my local newspaper.

It showed two Russian tanks sitting on a mountain in Afghanistan next to a road sign with Tehran marked on it. One Russian tank commander says to the other,

“Hey Ivan, Let’s go spring the hostages.”

That cartoon was taped to the inside top of my toolbox for years. Think I finally took it down before the first Gulf War. If the Russian Army had sprung the hostages, it would have been all right with me.

lasersailor184 · « **Reply #19 on:** December 15, 2004, 01:35:22 PM »

Russians did free some hostages. The Iranians took a few Russians as hostages in the crisis. The KGB went out and found the Mothers of each Terrorist. They sent each terrorist a picture of their mother and one hand. The Russians were released that day.

LePaul · « **Reply #20 on:** December 15, 2004, 02:07:30 PM »

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Originally posted by lasersailor184
Russians did free some hostages. The Iranians took a few Russians as hostages in the crisis. The KGB went out and found the Mothers of each Terrorist. They sent each terrorist a picture of their mother and one hand. The Russians were released that day.

That sounds too good to be true, any evidence?