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Subject: [Leica] [OM] IMG: Recalling Life Fifteen Years Ago
From: jhnichols at lighttube.net (Jim Nichols)
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2021 15:53:06 -0500
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Thanks, Nathan.

On 6/24/21 3:37 PM, Nathan Wajsman wrote:
> Lovely memory, Jim!
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> Cheers,
> Nathan
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>> On 24 Jun 2021, at 19:18, Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net> wrote:
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>> A local fly-in in 2006 attracted a lot of people to the airport, 
>> including a number of retirees who enjoyed an excuse to get outside.  
>> Four AEDC retirees were greeting each other when a younger acquaintance 
>> asked to take our picture. He sent me an 8x10 which has been on a shelf 
>> in my office for the past fifteen years. Now 91 and limited in my 
>> activities, I find the photo sets me to thinking of the past.
>>
>> Pictured are two Jims and two Cliffs.  I am easy to recognize by  the 
>> Leica IIIf and an SLR around my neck.  The Cliff next to me was a very 
>> young B-24 belly turret gunner in WWII, and later joined me to supervise 
>> operations of the world's largest supersonic wind tunnel. The next Jim 
>> was an instrumentation supervisor, and the next Cliff was a computer 
>> technician.  All of us worked long night shifts in the past, because that 
>> was when the electrical power was cheapest, and we used large quantities 
>> of it.
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>> Sorry, the feet are cut off, but that is the way the photo was shot.
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>> http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/20210624-P6240092.JPG.html
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>> I don't recall seeing any of these guys since that day in 2006, but the 
>> photo is a cross-section of the past, for me. And, in Tennessee, we do 
>> have some colorful chacters.
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>> -- 
>> Jim Nichols
>> Tullahoma, TN USA
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Jim Nichols
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In reply to: Message from jhnichols at lighttube.net (Jim Nichols) ([Leica] IMG: Recalling Life Fifteen Years Ago)
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