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Q: Why would I want to pay more than the minimum rate?Ī: To support the publication to help it thrive and stay online: this kind of support means less future To really support This is True, you’re invited to sign up for a subscription to the much-expanded “Premium” If that sounds good, click here to open a subscribe form. This is True is an email newsletter that uses “weird news” as a vehicle to explore the human condition in an entertaining way. This page is an example of my style of “Thought-Provoking Entertainment”. Thank you, good job, and keep up the great service to us common folk.īad link? Broken image? Other problem on this page? Use the Help button lower right, and thanks. ‘This is True’ tells it like it is and keeps life in perspective. The world is a very dangerous place, especially in the hands of politicians and the military industrial complex. Working for the NPS, and having lived through the 1950’s with our grade school drills of ‘duck and cover’ (even a grade school kid knew that adults could not be trusted since when is a little wooden desk going to stop an H-BOMB!!!), I think it appropriate to ‘preserve & protect’ this insanity least we forget. Maybe the park interpreters will use your ‘Museum of Geopolitical Insanity’ as a story theme for the vacationing tourists. President Clinton signed designating Minute Man Missile National Historic Site in South Dakota as the 379th National Park Service unit and our 78th National Historic Site. National Park Service (which will administer the site), understood the idea behind the story much better, and writes Their praise of the wonderful “push-button nuclear missiles” and saying what a shame it was that they were deactivated (“something was missing on the high plains of western South Dakota”) was what got me: that’s the exact idiotic mentality (on both sides) that caused the Cold War to last as long as it did. (Photo: National Park Service)īut I do object to the yahoo South Dakota congressmen gleefully talking like they wish the Cold War never ended. It was painted in 1989 by deputy crew commander Tony Gatlin, with wording input from his Alert shift partner, Capt. I certainly don’t object to the proposal, or even to spending $5 million to preserve it and turn it into a museum - I’d go, stand in awe, and listen to the lectures on the site with great interest. Not me: I think the silo should be a National Monument (to our own stupidity - and by “our” I mean humanity, not just American). Who in the World Said we should deny the Cold War?! Sure, there are many better ways to spend 5 mil why didn’t you focus on that? Don’t tell me you’re turing into a narow-minded, half-blind Yuppie idiot who’s all IQ and no brains, all Volvo and no driving ability.

Agreed, the Cold War was not a high point in the History of Mankind, but shall we deny it ever happened? If we do that, how the hell do we ever learn important lessons. On the one side was Tim, who didn’t say where he was from, who wrote:Ĭhrist, Randy, I hope you’re not one of those asshole history revisionists. John Thune of the same state, adding that under one missile’s concrete door, which resembles a pizza box, “someone wrote, ‘Worldwide delivery in 30 minutes or less or your next one is free.’ Dark humor, I know, but it was a reality.” (AP) …Opening soon: The Museum of Geopolitical Insanity. “When the wing was deactivated, something was missing on the high plains of western South Dakota,” agrees Rep. Tim Johnson, who sponsored legislation to spend $5 million to preserve silos at Ellsworth Air Force Base. The Minuteman “was America’s first push-button nuclear missile,” says South Dakota Sen. Congress has taken the first step to preserve a Minuteman nuclear missile silo in South Dakota and turn it into a Cold War museum.

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