At 4.55 p.m. - that's computer time, different from vcr time, bedside alarm clock-radio time, microwave time, oven time (though there's only a few minutes difference between them all) - the first foray of fighter jets came screaming down the valley. Two of them, noisy, a compressed sound unlike, say a jumbo jet. This is pure killing design, to instil fear. & then a few minutes later they're back, three this time.
This is friendly, war games, boys' toys. But more than a hint of what it must be like if they had heavy on their mind.
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Mark, this reminds me of when I lived in Tucson and the war planes that flew over Amphitheater H.S. (where I taught US History HA!) from Davis Motham AFB all day—so loud my throat bonded to my chest...hundreds of students outside during passing period, walking in groups, all ears covered with cupped hands.
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