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Like a motorist picking up his car from the repair shop, the two Marine pilots expected their Bell AH-1 Cobra to be running smoothly when they went to retrieve it. After all, the two-man gunship had been in the Fort Worth, Texas, factory nearly a year for a $1.8 million overhaul. But Major Michael Browne and 1st Lieut. Robert Straw found enough problems with the chopper to delay their departure a day. Then, 20 minutes after they took off in the late afternoon of May 23, 1997, they were killed when their aircraft plunged into a field...
...Wednesday night at 7 p.m. (8:00 in Floyd?s time zone), a man named Larry Ashbrook strolled into Wedgwood Baptist Church in Fort Worth, Texas, and opened fire with a semiautomatic pistol. He emptied three clips into the hallowed air. Three adults and four teenagers were killed, eight others wounded. After Ashbrook was done shooting young Baptists, who had gathered to hear a Christian-rock concert, he finished his cigarette and turned the gun on himself...
Think anything was more of a violation of something sacred than shooting up a school full of kids? How about a church full of kids? Police in Fort Worth on Thursday were scratching their heads for a motive after a man, identified by police as 47-year-old Larry Gene Ashbrook of Fort Worth, dressed in black and spewing anti-Baptist rhetoric, burst into a church service for teenagers Wednesday evening and opened fire, killing seven and then himself. He was "cussing royally," said one survivor, but he was calm enough to both smoke a cigarette and empty three clips...
...till I cried. Quittner really sized up the situation and even gave a reasonable solution--a hypothetical electronic jamming device that would knock a phone abuser off-line. It was great having a comic break during my workday. And, yes, I do have a cell phone. SANDY MASON North Fort Myers...
...pastime, if not a rite of passage. His parents live next door to Olympic Arms, a mom-and-pop manufacturer of gun parts, in the rural Nisqually Valley. Indeed, the thump-thump of artillery is a part of the audible landscape, thanks to a howitzer-firing range at nearby Fort Lewis...