A Poem for Space Shuttle Columbia and Her Crew: Sixteen Minutes From Home.
Shooting across the sky at incredible speeds, sixteen minutes from home.
Sons and daughters waiting anxiously, sixteen minutes from home.
Thunderclaps announce their arrival on a cloudless day, sixteen minutes from home.
The sky is lit by their vessel's wake, sixteen minutes from home.
Seven souls reached their destiny, sixteen minutes from home.
Frozen in time and history, sixteen minutes from home.
Saturday, May 11, 2002
Copper Mountain Mesa News
Our little Community wishes all a happy Mother's Day. I missed a few birthdays last week and here they are: Tim Herrera and Jackie Johnston. Sorry about that.
The Ramada Casino invited Bob and Marge Seeley to Laughlin Nevada. Bob was guest speaker representing the Marine Corp and the Pearl Harbor Survivors at the Casino's War Memorial Room and Display on April 30th. Mr. Seeley told the audience of his personal experience of December 7, 1941. Bob stood and witnessed the Arizona blow up, the Oklahoma roll over. He watched as enemy planes were destroying ships moored in the harbor. And finally being helpless and horrified as his ship, flag ship of the Pacific USS California, sunk. The devastation continued as oil fires broke out in the channel and people were trying to swim through it to get to shore. Mr. Seeley made it ashore to Ford Island were he found a truck and gathered up apples and filled containers with water from a swimming pool and distributed them till he ran out of gas. Bob says, "All hell broke loose that day and it was a very unforgettable experience".
Thought for the week: I been watching the news lately and I just wonder; has everyone gone nuts?
Our little Community wishes all a happy Mother's Day. I missed a few birthdays last week and here they are: Tim Herrera and Jackie Johnston. Sorry about that.
The Ramada Casino invited Bob and Marge Seeley to Laughlin Nevada. Bob was guest speaker representing the Marine Corp and the Pearl Harbor Survivors at the Casino's War Memorial Room and Display on April 30th. Mr. Seeley told the audience of his personal experience of December 7, 1941. Bob stood and witnessed the Arizona blow up, the Oklahoma roll over. He watched as enemy planes were destroying ships moored in the harbor. And finally being helpless and horrified as his ship, flag ship of the Pacific USS California, sunk. The devastation continued as oil fires broke out in the channel and people were trying to swim through it to get to shore. Mr. Seeley made it ashore to Ford Island were he found a truck and gathered up apples and filled containers with water from a swimming pool and distributed them till he ran out of gas. Bob says, "All hell broke loose that day and it was a very unforgettable experience".
Thought for the week: I been watching the news lately and I just wonder; has everyone gone nuts?
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