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sleepy

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Posted: 12/28/13 03:35pm

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This is where you cross the Ohio River to Point Pleasent, WV. Some of you are old enough to remember the news from here.

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Posted: 12/28/13 03:39pm

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I can see a bridge...

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Posted: 12/28/13 03:40pm

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Posted: 12/28/13 03:44pm

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There is something tha we want to share from here...

You can barely see another bridge.

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Posted: 12/28/13 03:50pm

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Posted: 12/28/13 05:17pm

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Wew decided to stop on the Ohio side first:

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Posted: 12/28/13 06:45pm

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Memories are all tied together... one pops up and leads to another.

The Silver Bridge collapse was a big deal... in a year of big happenings all around me.

The Viet Nam War was raging by this 1967. we were losing a lot of good men.

The USA had sent advisor troops over in 1960, I was in the USAF... we didn't pay much attention... Cuba had our attention.

In 1967 I was a pipefitter at FMC in South Charleston WV about 40 miles up the Kanawha River from here. We'd been on strike for months during 1967. I had a family to feed... to survive I painted houses, painted the inside of the WV Capital Dome,what ever I could get.

I promised myself that I'd never get in a bind like this again... and, the US Gov't came through with the GI Bill, retroactively to 1960.

I signed up for West Virginia State College to start in January of 1968. Thinking an education would see us through.

While taking a full load at State I continued working at FMC... hooking up barges and RR tank cars... emergency repairs while I went to school. I had to carry 14 hours to get full advantage of the GI Bill. I took chemistry, biology, Spherical trig, and english... studyed between tasks at work... slept on my feet if at all.

1967 crashing all around me started it all... the bridge was a diversion at the time... but visiting it now triggered thoughts that I never had time for before.

Note: I finished college with three majors and was hired by oak Ridge National Lab in 1974.

Maybe every one should get in their truck camper and take a trip down memory lane. It was fun...