Replies to @johnbishop @itchyd @jerryegge My brother-in-law, who was also in the U.S. Navy, was on the USS…

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My brother-in-law, who was also in the U.S. Navy, was on the USS Forrestal when the explosion occurred onboard while they were in the Gulf of Tonkin (Vietnam) in 1967. Thankfully, he was okay.

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itchyd | @itchyd | Nov 14 4:28pm

The father of one of my Nimitz shipmates, Bob Williams, was also on the Forrestal when they had their big fire. He was OK, also. A lot of things went wrong that day and the use of a bunch of bombs that were way past their "best served by" date didn't help. A real mess. We had a fire that killed several people in Spring of '81 while we were heading to Gitmo while working up for a Med cruise deployment. It was bad, but nothing compared to the Forrestal disaster. John McCain was a real Navy hero who survived that terrible event.

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