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

[Walt Wentz]

Naturally, the government tried to depict it as a "low-cost" little  
war, all glory and no gore. I believeby then they were trying to  
rigidly control Press access to military action.
Walt
On Apr 25, 2009, at 10:16 PM, David Morelli wrote:

> 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.
>>
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