re: La Nat Guard soldiers among those killed in helicopter crash. *PRAYERS*

Sorry I should have put this in here.

I was talking to a buddy of mine from Bay St Louis in Mississippi yesterday about noon on a cell phone when all the sudden he goes "What the hell?" phone went out for a few seconds.

He came back laughing and I ask what happened. He said "this big black military helicopter flew right over my head. It seemed like only a 100 feet or so. I have never seen one fly that low before. Scared the hell out of me." I think we was on the beach in Bay St Louis.

Then the sad news story last night. We were asking how did everyone die, and why couldn't it attempt to land it or something but obviously the were doing some kind of low altitude flying mission yesterday. They must have hit something or had massive mechanical failure and no time to correct it. Prayers to all the families.

We used to see this all the time fishing camping at the Barrier Islands but usually jets. They would get bored and buzz us, wing tip, etc sometimes which was fun. (Fishing can be boring sometimes) My buddy used to run the war games radar station for these test for a number of years. WE would always know when this was coming because our GPS would be off. (They denied doing this for years but everyone knows they did.) It was fine we get an airshow in exchange for the extra 30 minutes to find the wrecks. Plus when you saw the jets you knew your GPS unit was working ok, just being scrambled a little bit.

Prayers again to all those impacted by the tragedy.