Comments on: 30 years ago: Gulf War, Angela Davis, and a memorable night

By: Yahya Shamekhi

Yahya Shamekhi — Fri, 22 Jan 2021 16:03:00 +0000

Thanks for the article. But also, the gulf has a name -it’s “Persian Gulf.”

By: David Chick

David Chick — Mon, 18 Jan 2021 14:48:00 +0000

I was the “beat cop” on duty that evening encountering the march and assessing the available resources to provide a safe escort to Kennedy Park. Reading this is an interesting “deja vu” for parts which I did not have much of the rest of the story at the time. Life intersections…

By: Grant Reynolds

Grant Reynolds — Sat, 16 Jan 2021 03:59:00 +0000

We all have different experiences, don’t we? I was in an Air Force Learjet that evening, coming back to Washington from a meeting in New Mexico. We heard from Air Force dispatch that the planes had been launched from Saudi Arabia to bomb Baghdad. The passengers broke into cheers and cries of ‘it’s about time.” Some of the 8 passengers were WW II pilots, 5 or 6 were Air Force officers. I was a civilian lawyer for the Secretary of the Air Force, and the meeting had to do with legal arrangements for basing Air Force fighters at a lightly used civilian airport. Very different place that evening than the �ֲ��ý Chapel. Wish I’d been there instead of in the jet.
Grant Reynolds “57