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From: "Lisa Lepore" <>
Subject: Re: [Q-R] OFF TOPIC Re:NAMES
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2010 23:26:26 -0400
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Hi Alice,

I didn't know about the Texas City Explosion, so I looked it up.
I found this article that ran this past April in Houston newspaper, with
some photos

http://www.chron.com/news/photogallery/Texas_City_blast_of_1947.html#21255608

Lisa


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From: "alice bradshaw" <>
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Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2010 2:48 PM
Subject: [Q-R] OFF TOPIC Re:NAMES


> Names I see as we search, are of friends and schoolmates.if I'd only
> known they were cousins! it is easy to understand, w/ Galveston having
> a quarantine station. and people from all over the world, landing there.
> that is like the SIMARD name. on the corner a playmate, FAYE SIMARD:) I
> was about 10 years old, so time was around 1944.
> Galveston had/has FORT CROCKET, school mates in 1946 had service mens'
> kids in our school.
> 1946 tthe TEXAS CITY EXPLOSIAN, MRS. HART sent us scurrying under our
> desks. Atomic Bomb had been dropped earlier on. Mrs Hart not taking
> any chances. and then Mama come running to take me home.
> Thanks for the memories:)
>
> Alice Chauvin Bradshaw
>
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