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Mr_Roboto

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https://www.wsdot.wa.gov/TNBhistory/weird-facts.htm

Weird Fact #6: Tacoma Bridge spans ocean
The effects of Galloping Gertie’s fall lasted long after the catastrophe. Clark Eldridge, who accepted some of the blame for the bridge's failure, learned this first-hand. In late 1941 Eldridge was working for the U. S. Navy on Guam when World War II began. Soon, the Japanese captured Eldridge. He spent the remainder of the war (three years and nine months) in a prisoner of war camp in Japan. To his amazement, one day a Japanese officer, who had once been a student in America, recognized the bridge engineer. He walked up to Eldridge and said bluntly, “Tacoma Bridge!”

TFW when you're a POW and the foreign army officers come up and ridicule you about your failures.
 
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