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COL Mustard

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4. There was a young woman I knew who was on that flight.

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Sat May 25, 2024, 08:15 AM

May 2024

She was a student at Spring Hill College and I was across town at another school. We'd had ROTC classes together. Hard to believe it's been 45 years. For the life of me I can't recall her name but it was a first for me, knowing someone who was killed that way.

A few years later I was flying out of National Airport on my way back to Germany...that trip was the day before the Air Florida crash.

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