• Pat Flood (@rebarcock) passed away 9/21/25. Pat played a huge role in encouraging the devolopmemt of this site and donated the very first dollar to get it started. Check the thread at the top of the board for the obituary and please feel free to pay your respects there. I am going to get all the content from that thread over to his family so they can see how many people really cared for Pat outside of what they ever knew. Pat loved to tell stories and always wanted everyone else to tell stories. I think a great way we can honor Pat is to tell a story in his thread (also pinned at the top of the board).

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Ill add more sorrow to this, i live in Wichita, my son knows the ticket taker who was working this gate that night , 2 teen girls just barely made the flight

Idk if it was these 2


When I was in junior high I was visiting my aunt and uncle down in the Rio Grande Valley at their orange grove.

My uncle was a member of the Confederate Air Force so we drove over to Harlingen so I could see the planes and work on an Aviation Merit Badge.

This other member and pilot of this Catalina (see below) said, "Too bad you didn't wait until tomorrow to come out, we're taking this Catalina out for a run, and y'all could go with us."

I was like just my luck, wrong day - as a buy in junior high would be I was bummed out.

Next night I watching the news and that plane bought the farm on take-off killing everyone in it.

Sometimes you think it's a bummer, but is really a blessing.

Had that happened I wouldn't be on this thread with you great Patriots!



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