This blog was posted originally on April 13, 2017, in Unheralded and reprinted in the Grand Forks Herald and The Forum of Fargo Moorhead, as our region was observing the 20th anniversary of the Red River Flood of 1997. During a massively destructive event, it was one small moment that has stayed with me. I still think about it from …
This past weekend, Grand Forks photographer Dave Bruner and his wife, Sheila, did a short road trip and ended up at the Grand Forks Air Force Base. According to Dave: “Had nice clouds in air, so we walked around photographing and looking at the planes on display by the front entrance of the base.”
This has never been a very easy story for me to tell. For that reason, I haven’t told it very often. It had been a very long, very hard day. There had been a lot of April days like that during the 1997 Red River Valley flood. They were long days whether or not you were a television reporter. It was about a week after …