Word: guards
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...East Moriches, the town closest to the crash site in the Atlantic, residents and fishermen quickly headed out to find survivors. The crew of a National Guard C-130 practicing search-and-rescue procedures nearby had witnessed the crash, identified the wreckage and reported back to home base. Local law-enforcement and fire departments, large contingents from New York City and even rescue craft from Cape Cod, Massachusetts, responded to emergency calls...
...news last week, with reports of suspicious cargo that might have slipped onto the plane or of manifestos claiming responsibility for the deed. But any case for a bomb--and against bombers--begins with hard evidence from the crash site itself. And so last week the U.S. Coast Guard methodically raked up the debris off Long Island, 16 miles south of Moriches Inlet. Searchers ranged over an area of 240 square miles, neatly subdivided into nine grids. Each grid was systematically combed in a zigzag pattern; every piece of debris, of trash, every personal item and body part was picked...
...apart and go down in the sea. In a second or two, a typically dank Long Island South Shore night goes from languor to amazement to horror. Private vessels are first to rush toward the site through the Moriches Inlet, which opens to the ocean. Zodiacs from the Coast Guard station follow. Cutters come soon after. Emergency vehicles make a long, undulating necklace of light on the roads leading to town. The air is thick with police sirens and slow, mournful fire alarms. Everyone turns on the news...
About 40 minutes later, a Harvard Yard guard, Mike O'Terrio, watched Warner trying to enter Grays Hall, according to Riley...
...also have to pay a price. Ruthie Bolton, a 5 ft. 8 in. guard from McClain, Mississippi, had to take temporary leave of her husband Mark and her job as a First Lieutenant in the Army Reserves to be a member of the traveling squad. "Every game I think we've got to win, and I've got to do my best because the sacrifices have been too great for me to do anything else," she says, emotion in her eyes. "I don't want to feel like all this has been in vain...