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LudwigPastorius

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5. I played a concert at Johnston Atoll about 40 years ago.

Reply to keithbvadu2 (Original post)

Sun Nov 3, 2024, 01:44 AM

Nov 2024

That's where all the Agent Orange ended up after Vietnam...millions of gallons, a lot of it leaking out of metal drums.

We were issued gas masks and atropine injectors when we landed. They told us, if you hear a certain alarm siren go off, immediately put your gas mask on and hit yourself in the thigh with the syringe.

I don't know if that was for the Agent Orange, Sarin, or VX that was stored there. Oh, and half the island was contaminated with plutonium from three failed nuclear tests in 1962.

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