John L. Kachelman, Jr.: Hijacking Is Evil Etched Into Our Minds!

Hijacking—Evil is etched into our minds!

By John L. Kachelman, Jr.

Most remember the airline hijackings spanning the late 1960s and early 1970s. The peak of hijackings (1968-1972) was dubiously dubbed by history as the “Golden Age of hijacking.” At the peak, airplanes were hijacked at a rate of nearly one per week. The act was termed “air piracy.”

Heroic responses are etched into history’s chronicles, and evil is etched into the narratives.

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