Afghanistan - Oops, but it sounds similar...

Rusty

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I was going to say I met someone the other day that held out during the siege/occupation of Alcatraz during 1969-71.

But I guess that's a different story. Names sound close enough, though. ;)

Funny the characters you run into if you run around the desert long enough. Them desert rats are definitely a different breed, eh Uncle?

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He's also the guy who decades back, stepped off an airliner in Italy, shoved a spear into the ground and claimed Italy for the Native Americans, stating if it was good enough grounds for Columbus to claim the New World, it was good enough grounds for him to claim Italy. :D

Sounds like the same sense of humor a certain NDN on the HI forum has, don't it? ;)

Just hope that after 9/11 the FBI didn't start up surveillance of his place and take my picture and license plate while I was there. :p

If so, and they follow me the next time I stop by the Cantina, you'll probably have an FBI file on you, Uncle! :eek: :eek: :D

Come to think of it, they probably have a file on you already after the episode at Narita Airport. ( The Japanese though Uncle was trying to smuggle a couple khukuris on board in his carry-on luggage. ) I'll let you try and explain that one to the newbies on the forum, Unc.

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They've already got a file.

Interestingly and typical, some work I did when I was in the airplane racket years ago got classified top secret. Spy plane stuff. When some bigwig in Washington wanted to ask some questions about it I couldn't answer because I couldn't get at my work since I had only secret clearance. Washington had to issue me a top secret clearance on a need to know basis and the FBI along with probably 10 other agencies had to run a check. I always thought it rather ironic that the guy who did the original work couldn't see the work he did!!!!
 
"Do you solomnly swear or affirm that you will not recall or discuss any classified actions, material or bright ideas you did or might have have knowledge of, or in any manner encountered, nor think about them now or in future, nor publish them even if you did think or recall anything about them, which we your government will deny and ruin your life if you do, on penalty of your birthday and total cutoff of your supply of Heinies?"

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The Heinie line makes it unacceptable.

The stuff I worked on looked like tinker toys compared to what they have today. Of course, you must remember that I got my pilot's license without ever flying an airplane that had a radio aboard. Try that today and see how far off the ground you get.
 
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