A Big Surprise Off the Georgia Coast

Beautiful, no? The sky off the southern Georgia coast has often been so described. And the night sky is no different, better even, on a cloudless night. Like the night of Feb 5, 1958.

Clean, crisp, the scent of the ocean all pervasive, the stars a mariner's navigation tools.

On a training mission at 36,000 feet, an Air Force B47 Stratojet bomber collided with an F86 Saber Jet fighter. The smaller plane was completely destroyed and the bomber was critical, with a ruptured wing and a partially dislodged engine. After several unsuccessful landing attempts, the bomber captain was ordered to jettison his payload - a four-ton, fully armed hydrogen bomb.
            The captain chose the shallow waters off Tybee Island, figuring a swift recovery could be made in that pristine target range.
             It didn't work that way. Despite many attempts over the years....
Hey! Wait a minute! I wrote this article years ago, and I was just updating it when I found this. Click on this headline for a real bang-up ending!

                AMATEUR DIVERS FIND LONG-LOST NUCLEAR WARHEAD

Quote for Today

'The less a man knows, the more sure he is he knows everything.'
Joyce Cary

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I'm still gonna do Facebook, but...

… but I think I'm gonna migrate the bulk of my stuff over to my blog.

Why? Well, because I have more freedom of expression. I can italicize, for one (I've bitched about this for years, but Zuckerberg doesn't listen) I can also bold face, type bigger or smaller, and post pictures in the size I want them and where I want them.

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I can even add captions, and hot links.

If I'd like to post something additionally to Facebook, I just do it, and then my FB buddies can see, as an editor,  how I would lay the article out, instead of blindly following the Facebook rigid style.

Give 'em hell, Lizzie!

A friend said, 'but no one reads personal blogs. Maybe so, but I'm writing just to write. Fun facts I like to share, stories I like to tell, jokes, rants. Anyway, let's see how it goes. And you can comment on the blog, too.


I almost forgot - I've got hot links, too. Political links, sports links, even occasional fun stuff like an English-to-Latin translator. And the whole thing is archived; you can search for anything I've blogged over the years - like the article about the live hydrogen bomb the Air Force lost off the coast of Georgia!


This may be too much work -- I'm not as facile as I was in my Perry White prime -- but let's see how it goes.