[ProtectOurFreedom]

My 98 year old uncle died this past Monday. He was the very last of that generation in out entire family. He was working on his. Echanical Engineering degree when he enlisted. He and his bride got sent to an unknown, out of the way place called “Oak Ridge, Tennessee” where he ran a shift of farmers running a gaseous diffusion line.

[21twelve]

I used to do a lot of work at Hanford in Washington State where they built the first reactors to get the uranium. My mom told me “That’s where Stan Mindy went. He built aircraft wings there.”

“Um - that may be what he told you mom, but that’s not what he did there. He help build the A-bombs.”

“No - it was aircraft wings - I’m sure of it.”

Actually, Stan may have thought that he WAS building wings. Everything was very compartmentalized, with only a few of the big wigs knowing what was being developed.

[jmacusa]

I recently finished a book called “The Girls Of Atomic City’’. All about the thousands of young women who worked on The Bomb.("The Gadget'') The security was lethal.If you so much as opened your mouth or looked sideways at something you weren't supposed to you were out of there and fast.