Even now, 40 years later, Betty Stubbs can recollect every moment of December 12, 1985.
Living in Clarksville now, and at that time, she was crossing Ringgold Bridge on her way to work as a civilian secretary at Fort Campbell, when her radio blared unspeakable, crushing news.
Arrow Air Flight 1285R — an international charter carrying 248 U.S. Army personnel and eight crew members from Cairo, Egypt, through Cologne, West Germany, and into Gander, Newfoundland — had crashed in Canada not long after takeoff, killing everyone on board…