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hi guys...
after the memorial day i have this visitors
900528 C-26 / JM1S2
910502 C-26 / JM1S4
84-0157 C-12 / Duke94
02-0201 C-40 / Boxer42
60-0315 KC-135 WI ANG / RCH450
84-0119 C-21 / RCH492
not read are
India2190 C-130
Sperber1 ??? think german borderguard (DV)
A031 RAF Helicopter (DV)
i don´t saw the heli. think a gazelle because they use Army031
88-26040 arr Landstuhl Hospital as E040, Ramstein as Army26040
are you sure with the herc? (callsign/serial)
RAMSTEIN, Germany — The site was flooded with flowers. In German, dignitaries spoke of the catastrophe, of lives lost, and of angels in their midst.
Survivors and family members of those injured or killed in one of the world’s worst air show disasters visited Ramstein Air Base on Thursday to pay their respects 20 years on. Seventy people — including 60 Germans and four Americans — died Aug. 28, 1988, when three planes of an Italian precision-flying team crashed during an aerobatic maneuver.
Several Italian and American officers attended the memorials.
"It’s very emotional for me," said Thomas Wenzel, who lost his fiancee. "It’s a hard topic [to talk about]. It is good to see how the others are doing."
Wenzel was referring to the survivors. They included mothers and fathers, brothers and sisters, children and spouses, friends and colleagues. Several were actually at "Flugtag ’88," and some bore the scars of that fateful day.
"For us, it is a story that is still here," Ramstein Mayor Klaus Layes said following one of the ceremonies. "Nearly everyone in Ramstein remembers this day."
The day of remembrance included several events, some public and some private. Layes and Wenzel spoke after the first official ceremony, held just outside the air base’s west gate. Situated amid a cluster of trees is a memorial bearing the names of those who perished. On base, two events were held, including a private gathering at the actual crash site.
Through Oct. 5, the museum in Ramstein village is displaying a special exhibit dedicated to the events of that day.
"It is a part of our life and history now," Layes said.
Stars and Stripes
European edition, Friday, August 29, 2008
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