Texas A&M Forest Service employees, retirees recall Columbia recovery mission

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Twenty years later

COLLEGE STATION — Bill Oates was renovating his Nacogdoches home when he thought the rumbling he heard was coming from his daughter running around the house. John Gill was working a weekend job on a logging crew in East Texas when his boss asked if he had seen anything falling from the sky. Jake Donellan believed the boom he heard was a vehicle crash at an intersection near his Marshall home. …

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