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["Shea Tisdale" <shea AT sheatisdale.com>]

The handling was far from what anyone would have expected.  The official
outcome was this:  After an official enquiry he was awarded (by George
H. Bush in 1990) the Legion of Merit award for "exceptionally
meritorious conduct in the performance of an outstanding service". 


Here is a full account of what happened...I don't know how accurate it
is, but it makes for some good reading.

http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/5260/vince.html

> -----Original Message-----
> From: internetworkers-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org
[mailto:internetworkers-
> bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Bill Geschwind
> Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2003 11:07 AM
> To: 'Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/'
> Subject: RE: [internetworkers] PART 2: history lesson
> 
> Back in 1987/88 I spent a year in Berlin as an exchange student.
Towards
> the end of my time there, the study abroad office organized a social
> gathering for the exchange students which I decided to attend. A day
or
> two before that gathering, there was another **event** that I'm sure
> will not be mentioned in any history class in this country. The USS
> Vincennes, a US Navy Cruiser on patrol in the Straits of Hormuz
> accidentally misidentified an Iranian Airbus A300 (wide-body civil
> airliner) as a hostile F14 fighter jet and shot it down, killing all
290
> people on board. Whoopsie! Sorry 'bout dat! When I got to that social
> event, it turns out that I was the only American there, and most other
> students were Middle Easterners who were **very** upset. I left again
as
> quickly as I could. IIRC, the officer responsible for that didn't get
> too much more than a slap on the wrist.
> 
> - Bill
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:internetworkers-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Steven
> Champeon
> Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2003 9:50 AM
> To: Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/
> Subject: Re: [internetworkers] PART 2: history lesson
> 
> <snip>
> 
> PanAm 103. Over Lockerbie, Scotland, also by Libyans. It was full of
> Syracuse University students headed to England for a study abroad
> program, and I was a freshman. Two Italian girls on our dorm floor
were
> hysterical; they'd lived through the attacks on the airport in Rome,
and
> so it hit home for them. It was a very bad day all around; I had
friends
> who knew people on board, though I didn't know anyone - but it left
its
> mark on the University. There is now a "Hall of Remembrance" or some
> such at SU, where there used to simply be some steps leading up to the
> Hall of Languages, where I spent three years trying to learn something
> about philosophy and religion. Now it is a constant reminder, like the
> red lights at a railroad crossing.
> 
> Steve
> 
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