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Post by skywalker on May 30, 2011 1:05:02 GMT -6
I found Area 51 on this crazy Google Earth thing! I can see tiny little Top Secret cars and trucks and helicopters! I can also see all of the Top Secret buildings and the Top Secret runways and what appears to be a Top Secret junkyard full of Top Secret junk. ;D I would love to get my hands on some of it. It looks like a few of the buildings may have been either been blacked out, whited out or covered with phony markings. I'm not one hundred percent sure of that but that is what it looks like to me. I'm going to see what else I can find. Hopefully the Men in Blacks won't come and kick down my door anytime soon. It wouldn't do them much good anyway since I am not at home.
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Post by Deleted on May 30, 2011 1:47:27 GMT -6
Morgan, The "street view" of google is not from satellite images. They hired drivers to drive around on random roads and take photographs of everything around. The birds-eye view photographs however are from satellites. I tried to look at my house once. All you could see was trees and the dirt driveway. You couldn't even see the roof of my house... lol... Edit: I checked it out again. You can actually see the roof of my house... lol... but that's about it.
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Post by skywalker on May 30, 2011 8:52:23 GMT -6
I'm now checking out the Nevada Test Range where they detonated all of the nuclear bombs. There are bomb craters all over the place out there. I'm looking inside the Sedan crater right now...it is supposedly the biggest bomb crater in the US. I wonder if there are bomb craters like this over in Russia? I'm going to find out.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 1, 2011 14:53:01 GMT -6
The 'down winders' in Nevada paid a huge price in a wide range of cancers. Amazing that we tested (and would again) that which has done so much damage. And speaking of Area 51..the workers there from that area are in that category finally, after being denied for years. Isn't it odd that it won't ever be 'known' for the men and women who have died from cancer linked to nuclear testing there..but for it's secrets. www.lvrj.com/news/20733689.htmlen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Down winders
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Post by Morgan Sierra on Jun 10, 2011 19:42:39 GMT -6
Up, Down and Clueless.It's been almost six months since we started this forum and I have learned a lot about administrating since then, but there are still a few things I don't understand. One of them is why the number of people taking part in our forum fluctuates up and down the way it does. There have been times when we had almost two dozen members logging on each day, other times we only have half that many. It seems to gradually go up and down then up and down...without any discernible pattern that I can see. I guess it is just a natural pattern but I still can't help getting worried when I see our numbers dropping. Then when they go back up I feel better. It's like being on a roller coaster. The new members who sign up also does not seem to fit any pattern. We had worked our way up to the point where we were adding 2 to 3 new people each week, which isn't bad, then about three weeks ago we suddenly added 7 new people in five days. This was at the time when the world was coming to an end so I would imagine that people were signing up to see exactly when it was going to happen. That silly UFO hoax was also going on then so there may have been a few people who signed up planning on hoaxing us then changed their minds when they found out we already knew about it. I suppose that both of those things put together could have accounted for the surge in new members but in the next two weeks after that we did not have a single new person join. I don't have a clue what caused that to happen either. We seem to be getting back to normal now though. The number of guests to the forum have also been rather unpredictable. Since we started there has been a steady incline in the number of guests checking us out. We are up to about 150 looking at us each day, sometimes more or less. There was one time about a month ago where the number jumped up to 277 in one day, then right back down to normal the next day. I have no idea what that was all about. Maybe after doing this for another fifty or sixty years I might have it figured out but right now I still don't have a clue. We seem to be heading in the right direction though so maybe being clueless is not such a bad thing after all.
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Post by AaronFarquhar on Jun 13, 2011 2:20:46 GMT -6
Morgan, Did u have another name on the Mufon Site??? I just cant remember seeing the name Morgan Sierra on there..lol..
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Post by Morgan Sierra on Jun 13, 2011 8:11:04 GMT -6
Hi, Aaron. Morgan Sierra and Skywalker are the same person. I use Morgan for my writing and administrating duties and Skywalker for general everyday posting. As Skywalker I don't have to worry about accidentally hitting the delete button and eliminating somebody else's post. (which I have mistakenly done once or twice : I also have another identity here named Starkiller which I mainly use for storage of the articles I am working on and to experiment with different things. I know it is kind of weird that I would have three different identities here but it's a long story how that happened. Rest assured that I am not trying to deceive anybody...all three of me are still just me.
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Post by AaronFarquhar on Jun 14, 2011 1:50:37 GMT -6
Oh ok..lol..Howdy my friend.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 14, 2011 10:19:49 GMT -6
Multiple personality disorder brought about from hanging around with the boys from where-ever-they're-from. Riding along on a beam of light has been known to do many odd things.
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Post by Morgan Sierra on Jul 5, 2011 22:57:54 GMT -6
An Out of This World CelebrationYesterday was the Fourth of July and I celebrated it by sitting in a parking lot in northern Indiana. I would rather have been someplace else but I was stuck there so I decided to make the most of it by checking out the local firework displays. Apparently folks in the Hoosier state take their Independence Day celebrations seriously. No sooner had the sun scarcely cast its rays above the early morning horizon than the fireworks began detonating. I suppose that's about how long it took for the alcohol to start taking effect since the locals had probably started drinking early in anticipation of the holiday. Having worked late the night before I was rudely awakened to the sounds of crackles and booms. The fireworks continued being launched at intermittent intervals throughout the day. Usually there would be a flash of light and a puff of smoke, followed several seconds later by a loud boom! That was if they were some distance away from me. The ones that were closer I usually heard before I saw. Some were really close since there was a fireworks stand just a couple hundred feet away from me. Those were the ones that made me sit up and take notice. The sound was practically deafening. When darkness finally came the sky really lit up with a spectacular display of colored flashes and sparkling lights. They seemed to be shooting off from several different places at the same time. Rainbow colored lights were filling the horizon. As I was sitting there peacefully watching the festivities something interesting happened...I saw an IFO! I know, it would have been much more exciting if it had been a UFO, but thanks to Steve's IFO series I was able to identify it pretty easily so it was just an IFO. Actually there were several of them. The first was a bright flash of white light that zipped past a streetlight. It was only there for a second and then it was gone. A few seconds later it flashed by again in the opposite direction and I quickly recognized what it was--a big moth flying past the street light. That one wasn't too hard to figure out. The second one was also a flash of light, this time neon yellow and very close to me. It continued to flash off and on as it zig-zagged back and forth around me. This one was also very obvious--a firefly. I used to see them all the time back when I was a little dude in Texas so they are pretty familiar to me. Nothing worth getting overly excited over. Then something happened that was worth getting excited about...or at least so thought a crowd of people that started enthusiastically gesturing towards something off in the distance. A bright orange orb of light was rising up at an angle from the ground...followed by another...and another. Soon there was a long string of bright orange lights making their way up into the heavens, one after the other. There must have been twenty of them in all, floating through the sky and forming tiny little little geometric shapes. Triangles were very common. The people in the little crowd obviously had no idea what they were looking at and a flurry of guesses soon filled the air. Airplanes, military aircraft...UFOs... Soon people started pulling out cameras and snapping pictures and that was when I decided to intervene. The things they were looking at were obviously Sky Lanterns, or Chinese lanterns. I deduced that from the color they were and the way they looked with their flickering orange glow. The fact that they were drifting with the wind also helped me form a conclusion. Plus I had seen photos of them in Steve's IFO thread. I had never seen any in real life until that moment but they are pretty easy to recognize...at least for a UFO investigator. The people in the crowd probably would not have had a clue if I had not told them. After I had dazzled the crowd with my brilliant explanation I wandered off chuckling to myself and wondering how many reports MUFON and NUFORC were going to get about orange-colored UFOs over norther Indiana. Checking the lists this morning I was not disappointed. There were several of them, not just from the Midwest but all over the country, and all describing basically the same thing. For the past two years the Fourth of July holidays have been marked by an increase in UFO reports of colored fireballs. It seems that this year was no exception. I think we can at least be fairly certain that a number of those reported holiday UFOs are actually IFOs. Maybe not all of them, but a large percentage. I'm sure they will be back next year too. So will the people who point excitedly into the sky and snap blurry photos with trembling hands as they think they are witnessing something extraordinary. I won't be arguing with them either...the firework displays were out of this world!
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Post by Morgan Sierra on Jul 30, 2011 23:00:07 GMT -6
An Enchanted Evening JourneyYou ever have one of those magical experiences where you feel like you stepped out of reality and into another world? Where everything takes on an enchanted aura that makes the ordinary feel fantastical? I just had one of those unique experiences this evening. It all started when I was heading to the movie theater to watch Cowboys and Aliens, the new sci-fi western/alien flick starring Daniel Craig and Harrison Ford. (It was excellent by the way) Since I was only about three miles from the theater and there was a nice paved bike path that ran almost directly to and from where I needed to go, I decided to save some gas and jog the six mile round trip. I figured that I needed the exercise anyway so I quickly laced up my shoes and took off. I had barely started running and was just getting warmed up when the first unusual thing happened. I came across a squadron of National Guard troops that were doing a training hike down the bike trail. There must have been fifty or sixty of them all dressed up in combat fatigues and loaded down with gear. They were spread out all over the trail and I was wondering how I was going to get by but as I came jogging up behind them a voice boomed out, "Runner on the right! Move left!" The entire group of soldiers quickly formed a single file line on the left side of the path to allow me to go by. There's something you don't see every day. I have never had an army move out of my way before. I made it to the mall where the theater was and gulped down some food and a cold beverage at a local restaurant then headed inside to watch an excellent movie with a bunch of cowboys and aliens blasting away at each other with six-shooters and sonic weapons. It was very good. I would definitely recommend it. After the show was over I walked outside to start my three mile run back. Darkness had already fallen and the sky was pitch black except for a few stars that were glimmering down from the velvety sky. That's when the weirdness started. I hadn't gone more than a couple hundred yards from the theater when the sky in front of me suddenly lit up with lights. It was like somebody had fired off one of those huge fireworks that shoot up into the air and then explode with a thousand white sparkles flashing in all directions. There were no other fireworks though, and no booms or crackles like you would normally hear. I really don't know what that was but it was kind of cool that it happened right after I had watched an alien movie. It was like the UFOs were waiting for me to come out so they could put on a show. I proceeded onwards and made it to the trail and started running through the darkness. The bike path had been built on what used to be an old railroad and it took a nice scenic route through a secluded part of the country. At least it would have been scenic if I could have seen the scenery. There were thick forests of trees towering up on both sides, enveloping me in darkness. I couldn't make out much of anything except for a dim glow on the asphalt from the starlight in the sky. I looked up at the stars, and as I so often do late at night, wondered if something was staring back. That's when I noticed what I thought was the three stars that make up the belt in the constellation of Orion. I was surprised to see one of the stars moving! The middle star moved to the right and gradually made a triangle formation with a couple of other stars, then it formed a square, and as it kept moving sideways it formed a huge triangle with four other stars. This wasn't a UFO sighting because there were blinking lights visible that told me that "star" was actually an airplane and Orion's belt was still somewhere on Orion. For a moment it had me wondering though. I kept on running and with each step reality started to drift away. The darkness seemed to get darker and strange noises started creaking and screeching from all around me. I was hearing weird things that I had never heard before! My heightened senses were registering every sound and shadow that leaped out from the tunnel of trees that surrounded me. I could barely see where I was going. As I plodded along through the blackness I saw a little light flash in front of me...then another...and another. The air was suddenly filled with fireflies! The little lightning bugs were dancing and playing in front of me guiding the way. Some crawled lazily along the ground while others turned colorful flip-flops and somersaults in the air. I smiled and continued running along with my fiery little friends. Later on more lights started to appear. These were the far away streetlights of the city off to my right. Their yellow, white and orange orbs winked at me through the trees, flashing off and on as I ran by. It made me feel like I was in some fairy tale forest with tiny little Tinkerbells peering at me from the darkness. I half expected the big bad wolf to leap out and put the chomps on me...but somehow I made it back safely. I was back from the edge of reality. Looking back on it now I really don't think that anything that happened had anything to do with the paranormal, but it was definitely unusual. Just the feeling of it was pretty far-out. It was a unique experience that will last me a lifetime. Out of all the runs that I have ever done this one was one of my favorites. I know that no matter how many miles I put behind me I will always look back and remember my enchanted evening journey through the forest.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 31, 2011 15:18:21 GMT -6
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Post by Morgan Sierra on Aug 26, 2011 21:42:03 GMT -6
My Recent VacationAs many of you probably know I recently got back from a two week vacation. I drove out west to Nevada and saw and did some pretty cool stuff. I'm going to be sharing a lot of it with the folks here on the forum but it will take time for me to write about everything so i am going to do it a little bit at a time. For now let me just tell you what all I did on my trip. First I headed out to west Texas and climbed Guadalupe Peak, then I went to see the Marfa Lights. After that I drove straight through to Nevada and hiked up Mount Charleston. from there I took a cruise down the ET highway and snuck around Area 51 for a brief period of time. Next was a short trip to see a ghost town in Death Valley then I spent a couple of days rock hunting in the desert. On the way back I visited the Meteor Crater in Arizona which is an amazing thing to see. It's a hole in the desert floor a mile wide and 700 feet deep! That is something that everybody should see at some point in their lives. Next was a trip to the extinct volcanoes of New Mexico followed by a visit to White Sands National Monument. From there I went to the UFO Museum in Roswell, then back to the Marfa Lights and finally headed home. This was more of a UFO oriented vacation than anything and I must admit I had a wonderful time. I took lots of photos, I have lots of stories to share and I am already planning my next trip which will possibly be in January. I'm looking forward to it. By then I might actually be finished writing about all of this stuff.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 27, 2011 1:26:52 GMT -6
I'm all ears... erm... I mean eyes.
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Post by paulette on Aug 27, 2011 11:42:07 GMT -6
Look forward to hearing the details. Your run to and from the movie sounded interesting. When we go outside our senses almost immediately begin to expand from the shrunken state they have to be in in the city - hearing, night vision and day vision, skin sensations. Sometimes the Universe wants to dance with us but we rarely show up. Sounds like you have been doing some solo hikes and opening up to what's out there.
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Post by skywalker on Aug 31, 2011 12:58:37 GMT -6
I do like to spend a lot of time hiking, especially up in the mountains. When I go up there I sometimes see and experience things that most people will never even imagine. The world can be an amazing place if you pay attention to it.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 1, 2011 15:44:45 GMT -6
I think it's a good idea to take time every day to close the eyes and really 'listen' to the world beyond the world we normally perceive. It's possible to tune out noises, and bring others in closer if you work at it. We lose touch with reality so easily. Get caught up in the lists of to do's or for some it's being anchored online and that's just not living..it's existing. Sadly some will never know the difference
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Post by paulette on Sept 4, 2011 23:08:51 GMT -6
Skywalker - did you ever read any of the Don Juan (Castanaga's books)? He wrote a lot about things that his teacher (A Yanqui wise man) exposed him to intentionally. I don't totally believe that the books were truthful autobiographies. On the other hand, there was stuff in there that no one had written about (that I had read anyway) and seemed "right" to me. One was about silences (outside in nature). Like, they'd be out somewhere - in the desert in Mexico - and all the little night noises were happening and then - they were not. Like a cloud floating over the ground. I have experienced this is Mexico - at night - and cannot explain it other than one's senses' strain to take in sound and there is none. What is happening in that space? I don't know. And then it comes back - all the tiny insects and such resuming their songs and noises. Like how all the fish seem to know when a big predator swims on on the reef.
I have no idea if this is related to UFO's or visitors or things in this reality - or not. Have you had experiences like this in the wilderness?
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Post by skywalker on Sept 4, 2011 23:33:35 GMT -6
Yes, I have had experiences like that...where everything seems to just stop and stand still for a moment. I have had other experiences where the noises did the opposite and became so loud they were almost overwhelming. And then there are times when I suddenly get a very bad feeling, like something is about to leap out of the bushes and rip me to pieces. I think I am a lot more in tune with the world when I am out in the wilderness, without all of the distractions of cell phones, horns honking, people talking, etc... It is easy to lose yourself out there...or find the person that you never even knew you were.
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Post by Morgan Sierra on Sept 11, 2011 15:15:50 GMT -6
Where were you on 9/11?
Today is the tenth anniversary of the terrorist attack that occurred on September 11, 2001. We haven't heard much about it the past decade since it seemed like people were trying to erase it from their memories but now that a decade has gone by everybody seems to be talking about it again. News outlets are airing specials, memorial events are being scheduled, and people are once again remembering those terrible events that occurred at the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and on Flight 93 in Pennsylvania.
One of the main question I keep hearing asked is "Where were you when 9/11 occurred?" They say that nobody will ever forget the moment when they first heard about the horrible events that were unfolding on that day.
I remember exactly where I was. Ten years ago I was driving a truck through western Pennsylvania heading towards New York City when I suddenly got an urgent message on my On Board Computer telling me to park the truck immediately and to not move until further notice. Naturally, I ignored it and kept driving. After a flurry of other messages came in I finally decided to pull into a truck stop and see what the heck was going on.
Inside I found a crowd of people staring silently at a TV screen as image after image showed a jumbo jet crashing into a building in a big ball of flames. They kept replaying it over and over again and the people just could not seem to tear their eyes away from it. I finally managed to do so and walked back out to the truck.
At the time I did not think it was such a big deal. After all, terrorists had been hijacking planes and blowing up buildings for decades, and they had even tried to blow up the World Trade Center once before. It didn't surprise me that they would use one to do the other. It was just a matter of time, especially if our government was not willing to do anything to stop it from happening. I guess they just didn't take it seriously before that. Having several thousand people die on the same day finally got people to take it seriously...including me. I decided to shut the truck down and park for the night.
The next day my company finally gave me the go ahead to start driving again and so I started heading east. I drove past the spot where flight 93 went down in an empty field just a few miles south of the turnpike. I was only about fifty miles away from it when it crashed. I wasn't able to see anything from where I was though.
When I got to New York City I decided to take an alternate route so I didn't have to go through the city. I stayed just on the outskirts of it but I was able to see where the Trade center used to be. It was completely gone and all that was left was a pillar of smoke rising up from the rubble. The sky was brown and hazy, which is pretty much the way it usually is, except it was even worse than normal. Cars were parked everywhere. In the streets, alleys, up on the sidewalk...once again not all that unusual for New York, but definitely more noticeable. The city was a mess, traffic was a mess...but the people just went about their business in silence. No yelling and cussing and horn-honking like you would normally hear. Just silence.
Both the city skyline and the people had forever been changed.
Now here it is ten years later to the day and as fate would have it I just happened to be in the exact same place I was a decade ago. Once again I am driving through Pennsylvania heading towards New York. I pretty much got to retrace my route...past the empty field where Flight 93 went down (they had a big sign up telling people where to turn to get to the memorial) and on towards the outskirts of New York. Once again I am able to see the city across the river, with that brown haze filling the sky and the cars parked all over the place. The Trade center still isn't there. There is just an empty spot in the sky where it used to be.
It is amazing that after ten years they still haven't started rebuilding the thing. There is still just a big hole in the ground the same as there was a decade ago. The people still go there to put flowers and letters on the fence surrounding the site, and for a moment or two they stand in silence remembering what happened on that fateful day so long ago...then they get back in their cars and start yelling and cussing and honking their horns just like they used to do. I guess things haven't changed all that much after all.
It's true that people don't forget though. If only for a moment on a day of remembrance, while watching a special tribute on TV or attending a memorial service...or just driving down the highway like I was. Everybody does remember where they were on that fateful day when tragic events brought a far away war home...the day of September 11, 2001.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 11, 2011 18:28:08 GMT -6
~a tear appears in lorelei's eye~
~hugz Morgan~
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Post by lois on Sept 11, 2011 23:50:20 GMT -6
Yes I was still in bed and my husband woke me .. I never left the TV the entire day.. The first plane had hit the first tower but the second I watched it live. hit the second tower.. I don't think any one will ever forget where they were that morning..
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Post by Deleted on Sept 12, 2011 0:01:46 GMT -6
I was in bed too... 16 years old... it was 5 am our time when it happened. Dad woke me up and told me New York was on fire. I rolled my eyes and said, "yea right. You're just trying to get me up early for school..." and rolled over to go back to sleep. He said, "I'm serious!!"
We watched TV until it was time to go to school. Mom and dad drove me, listening to the radio the whole way into town. I went to my first class. We watched the TV all class. The bell rang. We went to our next class. We watched the TV some more. They closed the school early and the busses took us all home...
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Post by skywalker on Sept 12, 2011 13:17:29 GMT -6
they are supposed to be finished with the memorial this year but i don't know if it's ready yet, They have started construction on the new Freedom Tower also. I saw it across the river last night. It looks like it will be pretty cool if they ever get it finished.
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Post by skywalker on Sept 12, 2011 21:05:28 GMT -6
Now that was one heck of a coincidence...if it was a coincidence.
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Post by paulette on Sept 12, 2011 23:59:55 GMT -6
I was in the house with the TV on - I think my soon-to-be-gone husband called me into the living room. I watched for about 3 minutes and then went and woke up my 17 year old daughter. She didn't want to get up and I said, basically, that someone bombed the USA and that more than likely they'd bomb the *bleep* out of someone and we'd be lucky to be alive by the afternoon. She got up and watched and we saw the replay in which two people (a man and a woman) jumped out of a very high window with flames behind them. They were holding hands. My daughter just said, "Oh Mom, they were holding hands!" We wept.
A friend who didn't have a lot of channels on her TV wandered in and sat down. She didn't even knock (not that I wanted her too). Everything normal was suspended. Being an American I was deathly afraid that I was watching the beginning of the end....
I called someone that I had been romantically entangled with and asked his forgiveness for my errors. I said that this was not a day to let anything stand between people. He said, very gravely, "Its OK Paulette. We're OK." Again, I was preparing for the end. I don't know how it happened that Bush didn't give the order for nuclear annihilation.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 13, 2011 0:28:22 GMT -6
Paulette: In times of turmoil it is best to try to keep a cool head... something I personally have never been good at... ~shrug~
I only hope present and future presidents will be able to do the same should they be faced with such an unthinkable tragedy...
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Post by Morgan Sierra on Sept 13, 2011 18:33:35 GMT -6
From what I have read there have been many times that we (and other countries) were on the brink of nuclear destruction and we only avoided it because cooler heads did prevail. Not just the President of the US but Russia also. If either of our countries were really as bad as we each think they are we would not exist right now.
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Post by lois on Sept 29, 2011 14:02:08 GMT -6
From what I have read there have been many times that we (and other countries) were on the brink of nuclear destruction and we only avoided it because cooler heads did prevail. Not just the President of the US but Russia also. If either of our countries were really as bad as we each think they are we would not exist right now. One of these was the cuban missile crisis, I waited it out a alone In New York. My husband's ship had to go to sea, I think half the Atlantic Fleet was going out.. He did not come home and I could not figure out why. Til my neighbor told me .. Haven't you been watching the news? My little TV was not working.. I was there with no radio or anything. That lenght of time seemed forever.. Of course I keep up with it on her TV.. Kennedy was not going to give in.. Russia turned those ships around, I was so relieved.
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