August 1990 began like any other August on the Olympic Peninsula.  It was hot, but not unreasonably so.  There were no major wildfires darkening the skies.  Jerry Garcia turned forty-eight on the first of the month.  There were the normal rumors of trouble in the Middle East but nothing that seemed unusual.  George HW Bush More

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