Raccoon City, 1998

Twenty-eight years ago this week, the city was lost. What began as a contained incident on September 22nd spread beyond every effort to hold it, and by October 1st the United States government made the decision to end it by other means. The city, and the people still inside it, did not survive that decision.

Southern Air Trade lost people in Raccoon City. Ground crew, dispatch, two names on a manifest that never got picked up.

What we carry from that period — a handful of R.P.D.-marked pieces that came to us the way most of our stock does, secondhand, through channels we don't always get to choose — stays on the shelf out of respect for the record. The current pieces are below.