[Grovenet] grenada/ was that's one big flag.

[David Morelli]

It appears to have been more fierce than I recalled.

http://www.acig.org/artman/publish/article_159.shtml

David

On Apr 25, 2009, at 4:46 PM, Glenn Berkheimer wrote:

>
> Wow..I did not realize that many people remembered the war.  I sure  
> do, that is because one day I was rousted out of my bed and told to  
> get to the base ASAP out of the blue.
> I was part of a Medical Field Surgical Support unit of my Naval  
> Hospital and before the next day was out I had 19 dead and 191  
> wounded men on my hands and I was standing on a beach watching this  
> and not believing I was there.  The only thing good about it was it  
> was very short.  My son came to me earlier this year as he was  
> approaching graduation at Pacific because he had changed his mind.   
> His entire Pacific schooling had been in preperation for the  
> Optometry school.  My dad and grandfather were Optometrists and I  
> had been a licensed Optician as well as a surgical tech in  
> Ophthalmology but he had decided he wanted to take it one step more  
> and be a M.D. so I had said sure, to my amazement he came to me  
> with a listing about a med school he wanted to go to and low and  
> behold there it was, the Medical School on Grenada, the same one  
> that Ronald Regan had used as our excuse to invade the island.  Our  
> goal was supposed to be to rescue the students at this very med  
> school.
>