Hello everyone, this week’s bios include Dick Rutan, George Buchkowski, Gary Tompkins, Dean Echenberg and Charlie Neel, it looks like a mostly Misty week. If you live in Central PA, that pretty much sums up every day for the last three months…it may be time to build an ark. Thank you to all who have been a great help in getting your bios complete, 34 in the new format are finished entirely. If your name is on the list (and even if it’s not) please send me your story and data. It’s more expeditious to complete a bio when you supply the information.
Today in History – March 10, 1968 – The Battle of Lima Site 85 (Battle of Phou Pha Thi) intensifies.
10 March 1968 – “During the Vietnam War and the Laotian Civil War, Phou Pha Thi mountain was an important strategic outpost which had served both sides at various stages of the conflict. In 1966, the United States Ambassador to Laos William H. Sullivan approved a plan by the USAF to construct a TACAN site atop Phou Pha Thi; at