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Politics : Right Wing Extremist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Carolyn who wrote (7629)	4/13/2001 9:19:16 PM
From: CVJ	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 59480

Carolyn, you should never have mentioned Lambert. It immediately zapped back from the backroads of my memory an incident that occurred there in August, 1977. I was waiting for my flight to CA to go to a job interview and wandered around, eventually to the souvenir shop in the terminal. I found a display case full of military knives, bayonets and even one Japanese ceremonial sword of some kind. Naturally I had to ask the woman tending the shop if those items were for the skyjackers in case they forgot to bring a weapon. Instead of laughing, she turned an ashen color and I thought she would faint. This was before the laws against making jokes about skyjacking and terrorism would get you arrested, thankfully. It turns out that a skyjacking from Lambert had just occurred. This was the D.B. Cooper copycat that bailed out someplace over Indiana and was killed or caught. As an aside, wasn't it a St. Louis baseball or football player who was the first one to get in trouble for making a skyjacking joke and then was arrested for making a rather belligerent protest? I can't remember for sure who it was, but I think it happened at Lambert field. Chas btw I got the job. The same one I was just down-sized out of on this past Dec. 1st