<p><a href=“http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/06/AR2007020600106.html[/url]”>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/06/AR2007020600106.html</a></p>
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<p>CAPT Lisa M. Nowak, USNA Class of 1985. It’s time for Nowak to retire; her career is over. :eek: USNA1985 do you know Lisa from your time at the academy?</p>
<p>News reports on the radio say that Nowak is also being charged with attempted murder.</p>
<p>Dupe. See Parents Forum…</p>
<p>It’s on another thread, here.</p>
<p>So sad for her family.</p>
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<p>All of the women in our class “knew” each other. However, I wasn’t close to Lisa then and haven’t seen or talked with her since our days at USNA.</p>
<p>Attempted murder charge for Navy astronaut</p>
<p>Sailor to remain in jail after 900-mile drive</p>
<p>Posted on the NavyTimes.com:</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.navytimes.com/news/2007/02/apastronaut070206/[/url]”>http://www.navytimes.com/news/2007/02/apastronaut070206/</a></p>
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<p>Published in today’s New York Crimes:</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/07/us/07astronaut.html?_r=1&th&emc=th&oref=slogin[/url]”>http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/07/us/07astronaut.html?_r=1&th&emc=th&oref=slogin</a></p>
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<p>Lisa Nowak’s husband, Richard Nowak, is also a USNA graduate, Class of 1985.</p>
<p>This is very sad. Kills me the way the media is just working like mad to make this into a NASA story and how they musta really screwed up allowing this individual to rise thru the program over 10 years, fly in space. </p>
<p>Heck, I’m still wondering how Dan Rather ever qualified to read those “ticky tacky tight” returns on election night. And he prepped alot longer than 10 years.</p>
<p>Love is not always a many-splendored thing. Or at least human behavior as a function of it all.</p>
<p>You should see how the vaunted NYC media is handling this.</p>
<p>“Astronut”
“Dark Side of the Loon”
“Lust in Space”</p>
<p>Then they wonder why we hold them in such disdain… :mad:</p>
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Man, I bet the Class of 1985 doesn’t know which color to turn right now. Yikes. :(</p>
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<p>Amen. Preach it Bro Z! We’re with you.</p>
<p>The even more amazing issue remains that the networks insist on persisting down this doomsday path, convinced they’re “right” as their ratings continue toward the ocean’s bottom. Meaning? Fewer and fewer watch and read because they are truly unbelievable. Thank goodness there are alternatives to their BS. How long will Katie survive? </p>
<p>Like the monkey that got its tail caught in the lawnmower informed … “not long now.” We can only hope.</p>
<p>But back to this lovesick astronautess.</p>
<p>So… Will the TSA now be putting metal detectors and pat-down searches at the launch pads? :rolleyes:</p>
<p>Or perhaps this character flaw shoulda been caught @ Canoe U? :mad: (Reading Z’s, GA’s, USNA69’s, etc. one might wonder if it was actually DEVELOPED there? :p)</p>
<p>That’ll be the NEXT angle once the NASA “screw up” has been beat to death. 
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<p>Heck, they never blamed NASA when a bunch of these astronauts went on to become politicians! Now THAT’s scary! :eek:</p>
<p>What’s even scarier is when politicians return to being astronauts. </p>
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Nah. That would have been the case if she had driven 900 miles in diapers to yell at the babe that '85 had the last real Plebe Year. ;)</p>
<p>I watched a special called SNAPPED on Oxygen Monday about a USNA plebe, Diane Zamora and her AF Academy boyfriend, David Graham, that in 1995? had been high school sweethearts and killed another high school student who the boy had gone out with. A love triangle gone very wrong at a very young age. The both recieved life in prison. Very interesting story.</p>
<p>Well, now that we’re reminiscing (or however you spell it)…</p>
<p>In 1993 or so a USNA grad (male, nuke school grad) who was in love with another USNA grad (female) burst into her BOQ room and shot and killed her and the guy she was talking with at the time, then turned the gun on himself.</p>
<p>The guy she was talking to was a classmate of mine, Alton Grizzard. He had been our star quarterback and had recently graduated from BUDS and become a SEAL. He answered the door and the kid came in shooting. Grizzard and the woman were friends only.</p>
<p>Love is wonderful, but it makes people do STRANGE things, sometimes deadly things.</p>
<p>My husband got a ton of teasing yesterday when all of this came up, since the boy will be going; after the initial, “Why would an AF kid, blah, blah, blah…the Navy?”</p>
<p>“And how many women, or humans for that matter, has YOUR alma-mater put into orbit?”</p>
<p>Ignorant jerks. :mad:</p>
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<p>Even putting that aside, suggesting that people who are planning to attend USNA or become an astronaut shouldn’t do so b/c of the allegations against LN is akin to suggesting you shouldn’t visit Germany because of Hitler or shouldn’t attend the University of Washington b/c that’s where Ted Bundy went to school or shouldn’t be religious b/c of Jim Jones. Spare me. </p>
<p>There are those who just have to speak, even when they have nothing intelligent to say.</p>
<p>Posted on the Washington Compost:</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/07/AR2007020700618.html[/url]”>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/07/AR2007020700618.html</a></p>
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<p>The other sad aspect of this is she set back women in the space program. Yes, this could have happened to anyone, in any occupation. However, I’m sure the people who make the decisions about who’s in the space program and who’s not, all have outward plumbing. Will they be reluctant to allow women into the program? We’ll see. </p>
<p>There’s a fine line between brillance and insanity that some brillant people cross. They know better but can’t help themselves. I am glad no one was seriously hurt and I feel for this woman. She has destroyed her life in a weekend.</p>
<p>I’d not go that far, but definitely lots of repair work, confession, healing needed. You could be right on the gender issue although it’d be interesting to discuss that one, or better yet, be that Zaphodian phly on the NASA wall when that point is addressed. And it will be, unless even those officials are PCed off that topic as untouchable.</p>