Accidents and Incidents
- 25 June 1965: A United States Marine Corps C-135A carrying 85 USMC personnel was flying from MCAS El Toro to Okinawa. The plane crashed after takeoff killing all personnel.
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“The day-laborer is reckoned as standing at the foot of the social scale, yet he is saturated with the laws of the world. His measures are the hours; morning and night, solstice and equinox, geometry, astronomy, and all the lovely accidents of nature play through his mind.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great virtues greater also; interesting incidents are made more interesting, softer legends more soft.”
—Walter Bagehot (1826–1877)