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Because I'm bored at SFO waiting to see if I'm bumped, treating you all to a 75 yr old picture never

Posted by LeatherneckIllini <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=LeatherneckIllini' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on June 28, 2025, 11:34:50

seen before by anyone but me in decades.

Possibly the earliest high quality picture of Pyongyang. From our grandfather. Don't worry, I let the NGA's historian's office scan all of these years ago.... just in case. And as it turns out, one of the ways we find out what is underground is retracing the history of what is above ground. So I was able to tell our grandfather his photos (that he used to train photo intelligence officers after he returned from his year in Korea) were being put to use. The other originals are in an old salt mine and would take thousands of dollars to retrieve so they were very happy to have these. The sticky note is actually from him.

I used to work with a guy who testified before Congress on North Korea

Posted by Stu <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Stu' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on June 28, 2025, 14:36:18, in reply to "Because I'm bored at SFO waiting to see if I'm bumped, treating you all to a 75 yr old picture never"

He said that, while a citizen of Romania, he was sent into NK by the Soviet Union on some sort of dam building deal. While there, they went down a dirt road by mistake and stumbled into a camp of American POWs, clearly identifiable as such by their blonde hair/blue eyes. All of them.

did he help the POWs arrange a soccer match with a NK team?*

Posted by bbonb <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=bbonb' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on June 28, 2025, 15:17:16, in reply to "I used to work with a guy who testified before Congress on North Korea"

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They'd have to break the regular goalie's arm, or the guards would keep him in solitary.

Posted by complainant <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=complainant' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on June 28, 2025, 16:54:20, in reply to "did he help the POWs arrange a soccer match with a NK team?*"

Still, you'd get to meet John Huston. I'll bet that guy had some stories to tell.

Not that I doubt the veracity of your story

Posted by bbonb <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=bbonb' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on June 28, 2025, 14:15:23, in reply to "Because I'm bored at SFO waiting to see if I'm bumped, treating you all to a 75 yr old picture never"

but sticky notes weren’t marketed until 1977

Did that for me when he gave them to me. He was incredibly detailed. The air force did his story….

Posted by LeatherneckIllini <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=LeatherneckIllini' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on June 28, 2025, 14:34:34, in reply to "Not that I doubt the veracity of your story"

you can see here: https://www.veterans-in-blue.af.mil/Veterans/Veterans-in-Blue-2017/Display_2017/Article/1361607/james-quin-forman/

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but sticky notes weren’t marketed until 1977

cool story and he tired with a record of 1-0-1*

Posted by bbonb <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=bbonb' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on June 28, 2025, 15:20:54, in reply to "Did that for me when he gave them to me. He was incredibly detailed. The air force did his story…."

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you can see here: https://www.veterans-in-blue.af.mil/Veterans/Veterans-in-Blue-2017/Display_2017/Article/1361607/james-quin-forman/

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but sticky notes weren’t marketed until 1977

My maternal grandfather was sent out to India and Burma during WWII

Posted by timmer <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=timmer' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on June 28, 2025, 14:38:18, in reply to "Did that for me when he gave them to me. He was incredibly detailed. The air force did his story…."

I think he was artillery