Of course, sometimes these desperate searches for reasons for pride get rather comical, and you’ll find a set of attractions like ‘The biggest cord hank in the world’ in remote places in America, monuments to ‘The most gigantic teflon frying pan’ or ‘the house museum of local hunter John Smith who killed the largest beaver on the planet.’
However, the story of the North Caroline Armageddon has no relation to this provincial exotic. It is real and awful because of its reality.
What I’m talking about is the so-called ‘Goldsboro accident’ or ‘the crash over Goldsboro’. It occurred in 1961, on 23rd January. I remembered this date for life thanks to Pa, who once said:
‘Josh, all residents of our state have to consider this day our second or maybe our main birthday.’
My Pa would never speak
