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38 Minutes in Hawaii: My Family and the False Missile Alarm (Amazing personal account)
The Stream ^ | January 14, 2018 | Jason Scott Jones

Posted on 01/15/2018 5:18:17 PM PST by EternalVigilance

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1 posted on 01/15/2018 5:18:17 PM PST by EternalVigilance
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To: EternalVigilance

My real estate agent is out there on vacation. He took it in stride.


2 posted on 01/15/2018 5:20:43 PM PST by Not A Snowbird (A year in Arizona... and I haven't burst into flames yet.)
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To: EternalVigilance; Lazamataz; TADSLOS; BenLurkin; GraceG; beaversmom
Sir? Mum! You should come and see this!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pASEPotxfKo

3 posted on 01/15/2018 5:21:19 PM PST by KC_Lion (If you want on First Lady Melania's, Ivanka Trump's or Sarah Palin's Ping Lists, just let me know.)
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To: SandyInSeattle

I grew up about ten miles from what I always figured was number one on the Soviet target list: Offutt Airfield in Bellevue, NE, the home of the Strategic Air Command. I never figured I’d live to adulthood. True story.


4 posted on 01/15/2018 5:22:44 PM PST by EternalVigilance
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To: SandyInSeattle

Yeah, I had a friend who was vacationing there. They were just outside of Honolulu when the alert hit their phones. Pulled over into a parking lot. They were mildly concerned, but according to him, everybody stayed pretty calm.


5 posted on 01/15/2018 5:25:27 PM PST by EternalVigilance
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To: EternalVigilance

Strange aroma, smells like a Shadow President plot.


6 posted on 01/15/2018 5:28:11 PM PST by CMailBag
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To: EternalVigilance
My wife said, "If it happened here, what should we DO?"

I said, "Eat ice cream!"

7 posted on 01/15/2018 5:29:07 PM PST by Sooth2222 (“Toute nation a le gouvernement quÂ’elle mérite.” ("Every nation has the government it deserves.Â)
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To: EternalVigilance

I’m a student of the bloody twentieth century, a hundred years of genocide, democide, and total war.


I couldn’t read past this screed. This oikophobe isn’t worth the attention.


8 posted on 01/15/2018 5:30:56 PM PST by sparklite2 (See more at Sparklite Times)
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To: EternalVigilance

I lived at the base of NORAD in CSC for years south of the Broadmoor. RUMINT said that a 300 Kt was aimed at NORAD. Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide, taken in stride.


9 posted on 01/15/2018 5:32:14 PM PST by Liaison (TANSTAAFL)
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To: EternalVigilance

NK reported sub missing, think Red October


10 posted on 01/15/2018 5:33:20 PM PST by stockpirate (Give Peas a Chance)
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To: EternalVigilance

I used to drive by an active missile silo in the late 1980’s for one semester in college. It was maybe 50 yards off the road, max (if you were going the right direction).

Minuteman II maybe Minuteman III by then. Always figured the Russians would try to dig that one out with a MIRV’d warhead (along with each of the others).


11 posted on 01/15/2018 5:34:08 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: EternalVigilance
Thought-provoking that he draws this conclusion after learning it was a false alarm:

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“On the drive home, my ten-year-old son asked me this question: ‘Dad, why don’t we just nuke North Korea off the face of the earth, so we don’t have to worry about this anymore.’

I breathed deep and posed him another question. ‘Are there children in North Korea?’

‘Yes.’

‘Are they as precious as you?’

‘I don’t know”

‘Of course they are. Are there fathers in North Korea?’

‘Yes.’

‘Aree their lives as precious as your father’s?’ He didn’t answer. So I concluded, ‘It is better to suffer injustice than to inflict it.’”

12 posted on 01/15/2018 5:35:34 PM PST by untenured
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To: stockpirate

Hmm ... just what was on live TV for those same 38 minutes ???!


13 posted on 01/15/2018 5:36:39 PM PST by George from New England (escaped CT in 2006, now living north of Tampa)
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To: Liaison

Base of the mountain that is. the under ground complex is only an air station.


14 posted on 01/15/2018 5:36:40 PM PST by Liaison (TANSTAAFL)
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To: EternalVigilance

Same here. We lived near the Naval Ammunition Depot that had to be a prime target and my uncle was in SAC. I figured I’d go out in a childhood blaze of glory or die a long death from leukemia.

I always wondered how or if the adults knew the air raid siren tests were really just tests.


15 posted on 01/15/2018 5:37:09 PM PST by Sequoyah101 (It feels like we have exchanged our dreams for survival. We just have a few days that don't suck.)
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To: untenured

You are a good father and a wise dad.


16 posted on 01/15/2018 5:37:46 PM PST by BelleAl (Proud to be a member of the party of NO! NO more deficit spending and government control!)
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To: EternalVigilance

I live in Oak Ridge, TN, and with the Mahatten Project, it was a prime target during the Cold War. I was told that if you saw “The Big Blue Flash” don’t worry about it. It will all be over in a few seconds.


17 posted on 01/15/2018 5:37:57 PM PST by HangnJudge
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What to do?

Report to nearest bar, and partake of apocalypse happy hour specials.


18 posted on 01/15/2018 5:38:01 PM PST by Rio (I was deplorable when deplorable wasn't cool.)
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To: EternalVigilance

Just a sample of what it’s like to live in Israel


19 posted on 01/15/2018 5:38:06 PM PST by butlerweave
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To: SaveFerris

This wouldn’t happen to be Warrensburg Mo.


20 posted on 01/15/2018 5:38:08 PM PST by painter ( Isaiah: �Woe to those who call evil good and good evil,")
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