Monday, October 30, 2006

Laon Air Force Base, France Memories Part 4


The fighter planes at the kids park.

Cheese burgers at the NCO mess, with "Man-yan-aise?", would ask Pia.

Demolition of the control tower and micro-wave station in 1967, what a blast! What a crater.....

The tons of paper littering the base, most of classified, in 1967 as everything was thrown away and there was no time for burning.

The steam lines arching through the air to supply heat to the buildings.

The hurking big WWII bomb they found under the road during pipe repairs! What a mess.

The orange water out of the taps.

"Lamb Tenders" at the school cafeteria (found out years later what they really were!).

(Teaching the locals to say, "Kiss me quick!") Hey who did that one!

The annual air powered vaccinations - guaranteed to blow your arm off! Besides, you were likely to get every disease known to mankind anyway!

The snow during the winter of 1966, eepah!

The coal barges, the coking plant, the brown smudge of the sky.

Sugar beet harvesting and the bombs lining the roads every spring and fall. The less than brilliant guys whom decided to take some of them home in their trunk. (BOOM!)

The chicken farmer whom would throw his chickens in front of your car, on a blind curve, and then charge you for 10 generations of chickens.............. Yah, last I hear he went to jail for that one!

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