My father was flying for SAC and we were stationed at Homestead and it was during the Cuban Missile Crisis that I came of age, in a manner of putting it. It was when I clearly understood what death meant. It was on everyone's face for days. We were all quite sure we weren't going to get through that one without bad trouble. Our AO would have been struck by multiple weapons systems as we were the largest airfield close to Cuba. It was a very, very tense time. And after some years of active duty many years later I came to realize that all those flight crews and maintenance folks and all active duty at Homestead must have been 3 or 4 times worse in a mental state than I was as a kid.
And on a related note, I never thought we'd get through the Cold War without an exchange of fire with either the USSR or China or both. I didn't believe that humans would be wiped out, like was stated so often, but I figured we'd be pushed back a couple thousand years and those that did survive would essentially start all over again. I was very surprised when the Cold War came to an end, as it did.
By the way, I think some of you may have read or heard this one from other sources, but it is very true: The Cold War was only cold for diplomats.
And a very strange thing I wish to add is that I think I do know a way we can get ourselves out of this darn military-option-only loop we have gotten ourselves into. I'm in the process elsewhere of spilling that out very slowly and am just hoping I get it all out for everyone to study before this darn cancer finally gets me. What little I have leaked out on some other sites around the Net has confirmed one important point, most folks think I'm nuts when I start to head down that path. But no problem. In fact, I could very well be nuts, but somebody has to try. It's all well and good to complain about a problem, but eventually somebody has to come up with an answer. I stumbled into a possible answer quite by accident about 15 or so years ago. I actually didn't realize I had a possible answer until about 5 or so years after the whole thing started. Funny, I didn't know I was going to spill this information here on this site, in this community. I stumbled into this community quite by accident. I've got quite a history on the Net. Many people know me, but don't know who I am, in one way to put it. Once they realize I am serious the reaction is either I am nuts, or they get very scared. It's the folks with certain amounts of money and power on the Net that get scared. Most other folks just view me as being really weird and probably not sane. I very much like that reaction. The ones that get scared usually get me away. The list of bannings I have behind me is amazing. Even the then president of the ISOC banned me from writing my ideas to ISOC members on the ISOC site. He couldn't outright take my membership away, but he could stop me from using their platforms to communicate my ideas. My wife wishes I'd just leave the rest of the humans on this planet alone and concentrate on staying alive and relaxing in my last year or so. In fact, this very paragraph would make her very angry. Lucky we have a couple homes where we can each hide from each other for a spell, off and on.
Yep, you've got to trouble yourselves to find answers after you've identified the problem. We humans have to come up with a new system. The Good Lord helps those who help themselves, so don't expect handouts of knowledge from that source either.
