[SirLinksalot]

Sometimes, God works through the most obscure men. We almost never hear about people like these.

[MarMema]

I always loved this story. Thanks for posting it!

[Junior_G]

Interesting story....my favorite part is where Jim Lutz asks us to send a check to his ministries in the amount of whatever our life is worth.

[weegee]

Then he made the decision that saved the world. Summoning up his firmest voice, he called his Kremlin liaison and said it was a false alarm. But today he admits, "I wasn't 100 percent sure. Not even close to 100 percent."

So the world slept on.

Months later, it was determined that sunlight reflecting off clouds in Montana had caused a faulty satellite computer assembly to report a missile launch flash. But by that time, Petrov's excellent military career had been sidetracked. He wasn't fired, but he was transferred – and never got any medals or recognition. When his wife was found to have a brain tumor in 1993, he retired to take care of her. When she died, he borrowed money to give her a funeral.

So he saved the world by not destroying the world. I'll remember all the people who's lives I saved this year because I didn't hit them with my car when they walked in front...

It was a FAULTY system in the first place. Launching the missiles would have been an attack, not a response. Even if they were launched under faulty data.

And as it was my birthday, I do know where I was (but some of the details are fuzzier than testimony from Hillary Clinton).

[Bear_Slayer]

Do you think they will let me live in Montana?

[Dont_Tread_On_Me_888]

The amount, of course, is up to you. The way I look at it myself is: "How much do I give to somebody who saved my life?"

Saved "my life"?

More like saved the world, and saved the lives for many future descendants of all of us who otherwise never would have been born. That is a pretty selfish thought to say he "saved my life"-he saved the planet.

[M203M4]

reminder bump

[Paul C. Jesup]

Sometimes, God works through the most obscure men. We almost never hear about people like these.

We should quit giving God credit and give this man credit for realizing the obvious and saving the world.

From the article: "Who would order an attack with only five missiles? That big an idiot has not been born yet, not even in the U.S."