Am I the only one who thought about Jason and the golden fleece?
I was in the Canadian navy when the hostages were smuggled out of Iran, we pulled into Eureka Ca and couldn’t spend our money. The local folks there, like most americans everywhere, treated us really good. Walking back to the ship my buddy and I came across two USCG chicks who paid for the room and ‘thanked’ us.
Eureka, good town
Sorta similar thing happened to us - Herr 'spiel and I were stationed in Lahr, Germany and happened to be at the US base in Heidelberg when the news broke. We came back to our car (which had the Canada NATO plates) to find it covered in flowers and thank you notes.
If anyone “thanked” him, I don’t want to know about it.
Loach
October 12, 2012, 5:50pm
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Hail_Ants:
Let me be the first to say:
The Iranian hostage thing happened when I was in High School, and it dominated the news for over a year (Ted Koppel’s ***Nightline ***show started because of it). Though to be fair I recall that the rescue of those six by Canada got almost no
I also seem to recall that billionaire/looney Ross Perot had something to do with the rescue…
The Ross Perot thing was different. He had employees stuck in Iran and contracted a retired Green Beret to get them out.