by Floyd Smoots » Sat Mar 04, 2006 2:20 am
chiggerbit, you have earned my respect by politely requesting an apology from me a few days ago for my conduct on this "hosted" board.<br><br>However, though you say you are older than I, and I dispute it not, I'm only fifty eight; I have lived within five nautical miles of Norfolk Virginia's airport for most of my life. We also had, formerly, Norfolk Naval Air Station, within three miles (until BRAC killed it), and yet still, Oceana Naval Air Station, 18 miles away (as the crow flies, and I DON'T LIKE crows).<br><br>As a punk-assed kid who really wanted to grow up to be a "spaceman", I, too, have always watched the skies. In my observational expierence, I have never seen the skies, for more than forty years, look as strange and effed up as I have noticed in the last eight or so years. I don't pretend to know exactly What's going on, but I truly believe that whatever this new paradigm (HATE THAT WORD) is, it's not the same-old, same-old.<br><br>Respectfully submitted,<br>Floyd<br> <p></p><i></i>