Pippin, after just visiting the Finest Coffe House and catching up on the gossip, this makes me think of you, too...hmm, seems you've 'found your voice'...)))
Orcs and liberals, be very afraid.
Posted on 03/06/2003 2:56:10 AM PST by dutchess
Edited on 03/06/2003 9:00:01 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
Pippin, after just visiting the Finest Coffe House and catching up on the gossip, this makes me think of you, too...hmm, seems you've 'found your voice'...)))
Orcs and liberals, be very afraid.
I just came back to check, and am checking out again - don't know what Wolfie's plans for taking us to dinner are, but I have to for real, get dressed for dinner with some 'non-Freeper Friends'.
Got your mail - hope you hear something soon - don't have next week's schedule yet (except for Tuesday and Thursday) :)
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Thank you ! I'll try to check it out regarding Clara. I will definitely watch President Bush tonight. It's at 8 p.m. Eastern time tonight. That's 7 Central . . .
I put up my flag today on the Log i'm building!
I'm posting this for all that liked the Log Cabin
In truth, jw, when the hippies in America began to make love - not war, I was fully immersed in the Cold War.
My 3rd child, a daughter, was born September 30, 1962, and days later came the Cuban Missile Crisis.
My husband was in SAC Security, guarding the B-52's - workhorse of that and many days. Ellsworth AFB and a 100-mile radius was the # 2 Target of Russia, our missile silos located in the mountains, as well as the birds.
My best friend next door and I - husbands working together 12 hours on, 12 off - kept one of our station wagons ready, fully gassed and packed to leave town should the first missile be fired. The reality was our husbands would be the last ones on base by virtue of their assignment, if they lived.
My plan was to head out with Susan and her 2-month old baby, and mine, plus my boys 7 and 8, and head for a summer cabin area 30 miles northwest. She would maintain a cabin we 'adopted,' and care for the chidren and cook. I, with some country living experience, would fish and trap and shoot, chop firewood, etc.
Need I spell out this was a very serious Survival Plan - and I was just 28 years old?
We knew SAC somewhere in the mountains had a 2-year supply of food stored, and we hoped to 'make it' until we had help to connect to that...that the military would look for those like us, out of the nightmare Rapid City would be, desperate and hungry persons doing unspeakable acts to insure they themselves survived.
Have to forgive me if I didn't have Flower Power on my mind.
Three months later, my family left the night after Christmas to drive through Canada and around the end of the Rocky Mountains and over the Alaska Highway to go to Fairbanks, Alaska - the next survival course.
As we reached the beginning of the Eielson AFB runway, on our left the setting sun at 1330 hrs flanked by twin vertical rainbows, on our right a U-2 took off!
For those of you too young to remember, it was after the Gary Powers U-2 over Russia was downed, and President Eisenhower pledging we would halt the flights.
My husband guarded them and other secret projects being developed there, as well as sitting in Russia's back yard.
Sorry to have missed out on all that 'love and peace' going on. Was distracted by ice fog and 50 below zero temps and the Good Friday Earthquake in 1964 - Russian MIG's doing flyovers of our base, knowing they were faster than the F-102's we had. Surprise! Brought up some F-104's from Seattle to launch on their next visit, and a pilot described to my husband he escorted a MIG to Russian air space, dropping his missile rack and shaking his finger at him...turned plumb white, did the Russian pilot!
What did a dumb patriotic Marine wife of an Air Force man know about demonstrations and drinking and sex and drug fests, and 'free' love?? Too busy raising three decent American children on woefully minimal pay, defending their right to frolic and be so self-absorbed and important.
Think I'll pass on most of the indignities of the Nam Era with my husband there as the forerunner of AF Special Forces, in many of the major battles (Tet;Da Nang, etc.) and weeding out communist infiltrators to the villages around his base.
Oh, yes - might mention in his off time, he scrounged food and goods and drove them in the Chaplain's jeeps to feed the starving villagers. The infiltrators routinely took all their food and crops, and they would otherwise have starved to death. While there, they tortured, raped and killed any in authority - and their children and grandchildren, did those communists. But they still say the war was in vain????? "We were just babykillers".....
I have before described here how those sweet college kids greeted my man and his friends coming home after a year in the jungles....snapped the arm of the girl who spit in his face, and he and his friends gave several of them a lesson in the restroom, since they'd skipped class to be there.
The airport police stayed out, and afterward smiled as they mopped up the human debris.
You have a glimmer of the depth of my contempt for those who choose to be blind in a situation like the one today when the threat is a clear one - act, or risk suffering something WORSE should Iraq use weapons on Israel or other neighbors, in addition to us through terrorists already living among us.
I PAID THE PRICE FOR THEIR PEACE, IN SPADES, and yes, would do it all over again...I will never abandon my post for helping ensure America's survival.
Many of us have paid the price of peace, and will not shirk doing so as often as need be....tonight with one arm broken, yes, jw, I could still verbally indeed kick some serious hippie butt...and my three children will do their part as well when I am through.
Loved that poster, JW!
LadyX I read your post and your story. Every time I read about your life in the military with a military husband and those wonderful children. I grow more proud that I know you. Now go kick some hippie butt!
By the way, who's the keeper of the QOTD?
FReeper RJayneJ.
Jayne, check out #149
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