TWA Flight 800
(Created by Ian Goddard in honor of CDR William S. Donaldson, III USN, courtesy of twa800.com)
Smith Point Park is my long-time favorite beach park. It is closer than Montauk Beach, and is not as crowded as Jones Beach. I have been there countless times. But my most recent visit, a couple of hours ago, uncovered a new perspective to me.
You will never miss the international flags at the Beach Park. Of course, I see it too, everytime I went to the park. But I have never take a second think about what the flags for, mostly because I am not good at recognizing flags, which one is Germany, and Belgium? They all look the same to me, especially when flying. But this time when I drove by the flagpoles and anxiously heading the parking lot, I happened to see one line of words " @#$^% Flight 800 Internal Memorial". So I realized it is a memorial for probably an aircraft crash. This differs a lot from my original idea of what the flags for, I thought they are just part of the beach club.
What cause me to return to the memorial was that I suddently recalled one controversial "accident", which also happen in LongIsland some years ago, could this be the one?
Yes, it is, TWA 800. And the word "controversial origin" is exactly etched in the memorial. How can I ignore the existence of such a big memorial for so long time? It is totally a disaster, even worse, no one seems to know the true origin of the disaster. The government insisted on it being a mechanic accident, but people with abundant evidence believe it could be a friendly fire from a secret army operation. Others believe it could be connected to terrorist... The version from the government seems not be widely accepted. Some non-officail organizations try to find the trueth, or at least the trueth they believed. I even found several books on sale at Amazon.
It would be extremely hard to find out the very exact origin of the disaster. But it seems people are still not giving up. Those people are called truth warriors.