================================================ Subject: Re: interesting time at Salinas airshow From: "Alexis M." To: Date: Sun 16 Sep 2001 16:24:51 -0700 ================================================ That sounded like a lot of fun! Did the show generate a lot of proceeds? A car eating robot?? Lol, that must have been strange! On Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:55:25 +0000 Lisa King writes: > Just thought some might like to know about the airshow I worked at > with my > daughters ROTC group. > > It was almost canceled to begin with because all planes had been > grounded. > All involved got together and decided to put it on anyway and send > all the > proceeds to the families of the victims. > > It was interesting to say the least. We had an elephant and camel on > the > runway, a car that goes 300 MPH and Robosaurus, (a car eating robot > that > shoots out fire to cook it's "meal". > > The parts that brought tears to your eyes though was when we got > word that 3 > F18s had come from Canada because the Thunderbirds were unable to > perform. > Canada came on one days notice and barely got in with all the > restrictions. > As it was there was a major delay in them flying over because again > they > almost did not get clearance to leave the Monterey airport to fly > over ours. > They still have not gotten clearance to leave yet. > > The most sentamental time came when they played the song "wind > beneath your > wings" as we watched first representaives from as branches of the > military > parade down the tarmac followed by medical personal, fireman and > police. I > could not keep the tears out of my eyes. > > Still recovering today as my group had grounds keeping. (keeping all > the > trash off the ground and bleacher seats.) > > > Lisa whose daughter was thrilled to talk to one of the pilots of > the F18 > > _________________________________________________________________ > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at > http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp > > To unsubscribe or change your preferences for the Creed-Discuss > list, visit: > http://www.winduplist.com/ls/discuss/form.asp > ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj. To unsubscribe or change your preferences for the Creed-Discuss list, visit: http://www.winduplist.com/ls/discuss/form.asp