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Good article.  I am old enough to remember those happenings.
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I've read this before!  You may have posted it from a different source.  I remember because I was sitting on the Texas coast as part of the take-over force and ready for action!

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I've read this before!  You may have posted it from a different source.  I remember because I was sitting on the Texas coast as part of the take-over force and ready for action!

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yeah well, he is getting old, and stubborn, and soon he'll start posts with:

'Well, I'm XXX years old and......."

here's the link to the post you remember:

A Russian Sub Commander deserving and American medal
« on: Dec 08, 2012, 11:36 »

https://www.nukeworker.com/forum/index.php/topic,35709.0.html

and here's the article from that post (because not all are GM):

Thank you Vasili Arkhipov, the man who stopped nuclear war

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/oct/27/vasili-arkhipov-stopped-nuclear-war

Good article.  I am old enough to remember those happenings.
LM

not me,...

peace all,... :P ;) :) 8)
« Last Edit: Mar 31, 2016, 06:58 by GLW »

been there, dun that,... the doormat to hell does not read "welcome", the doormat to hell reads "it's just business"

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Good article.  I am old enough to remember those happenings.
LM

While I'm old enough to remember those happenings, the more important things in my life in 1962 revolved around getting Jean to go out with me and attempting to recover from being expelled from school.

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Good article.  I am old enough to remember those happenings.
LM

Same here, hard to forget along with the Bay of Pigs and Kennedy's assasination all in a couple years time.

here's the link to the post you remember:

A Russian Sub Commander deserving and American medal
« on: Dec 08, 2012, 11:36 »

https://www.nukeworker.com/forum/index.php/topic,35709.0.html

and here's the article from that post (because not all are GM):

Thank you Vasili Arkhipov, the man who stopped nuclear war

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/oct/27/vasili-arkhipov-stopped-nuclear-war

The National Geographic article is much better.

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Same here, hard to forget along with the Bay of Pigs and Kennedy's assasination all in a couple years time.

The National Geographic article is much better.

I concur,... 8)

been there, dun that,... the doormat to hell does not read "welcome", the doormat to hell reads "it's just business"

 


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