Blast From The Past

[Boudicca]

Literally.
This morning, I was talking about our experience as a young married couple with an infant daughter during the bombing of the Frankfurt PX in 1985 to a young guy not even born then.  My husband's C-7 Renegade was considered destroyed in that blast.  He did keep it, repair it and sell it to a colonel looking for a play toy for his teenage girls though.  Even after the full disclosure and pics to boot.  No one died, that was the miracle.

http://www.3ad.com/history/cold.war/feature.pages/terrorism.htm

[Eupher]

I remember that incident well, having come a few months before the LaBelle disco bombing in Berlin in April 1986. GEN Kroesen, the 7th Army commander, was wounded in an RPG attack on him in his staff car by the Baader-Meinhof terrorist gang. Lotsa shit happened in Europe in the Eighties, most of which is forgotten.