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Offline williamlayton

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« on: May 05, 2013, 01:38:27 AM »
What does that name mean to you and why is it relevant today ?
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« Reply #1 on: May 05, 2013, 03:06:32 AM »
 The name of the  new nationalized eldercare system? Let me take a wild guess, ::) in 2016 everyone beyond working age will be required to attend Grandcamp, you'll be trained for various eldercare jobs available, most in childcare for the working age adults kids. You"ll have to participate to earn your "golden year" healthcare certificates to allow you to buy additional food, meds or to help subsidize your home energy bills. Once beyond your Grandcamp years you move on to "Sunsetters", this is managed care to make you comfortable during the final days of your life. That it?  ;D
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Re: GRANDCAMP
« Reply #2 on: May 05, 2013, 03:12:38 AM »
  I'll take a stab..
 1. There was a large encampment of veterans of the GAR (grand Army of the Republic).. I believe, in Gettysburg..some years after the war.
 
2. The name of a liberty ship which caused havoc on a Texas port..
 
 3.  Possibly a big revival meeting somewhere on the "sawdust trail"..
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Re: GRANDCAMP
« Reply #3 on: May 05, 2013, 03:54:42 AM »
WL, since you're in Texas, assume you mean the Texas City explosion, had to google it to find out.
Tell us its relevance to you personally.
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Re: GRANDCAMP
« Reply #4 on: May 05, 2013, 07:01:34 AM »
West, Texas will survive.
Texas city--1947--largest industrial accident in the History of America.
The Grandcamp and another ship blew loaded with tons of Ammoniun Nitrate on board. Blew the anchor of the Grandcamp 1/2 mile and the prop of the other ship a mile inshore---created a 15 foot wall of wather in Galveston bay and the noise could be heard for 140 miles.
Texas City is up and running, still.
Never collected all the bodies and the death toll is still uncertain.
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« Reply #5 on: May 07, 2013, 03:08:21 PM »
Is it myth or fact. Someone told me or I read it somewhere that the tail shaft of that ship has never been found.
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« Reply #6 on: May 08, 2013, 07:21:25 AM »
 In the fall of 1973 I was working in Texas City with a pipeline repair company. We ate lunch over by that second ships anchor. Indeed, it was a piece from the docks! We rebuilt a pump station for Gulf Oil near the port. The adjoining  plants pollution had corroded the chain link fence to chalk! I was glad that job was finished in record time, ha. I miss the seafood in Kemah! (Well, anywhere down in that area, ha.)
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« Reply #7 on: May 09, 2013, 02:23:11 AM »
Pasadena TX---where the grass is greener---and---so is the air.
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