re: Pictures from days gone by....

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Dad, as USMC pilot, was stationed in Miami during the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis. His was a "special weapons squadron" (e.g. nukes). He is the only Marine to have dropped a nuke test weapon, and it was off an AD Skyraider while he was a member of the squadron.

His log books are interesting. Every day flights out of Miami for "training." Missile Crisis starts - no entries. A few weeks later, the "training" entries start again.

I asked but he would never tell me what was going on.

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A little off subject, but my uncle was an engineer who worked on the Westinghouse satellite systems on nuclear submarines. He could never tell anyone - not even his wife - what he actually did, other than he worked on these satellite systems. My family was in Gettysburg visiting them one summer in the early 80's, and a white van pulled up to their house and three men came to the door and picked up my uncle. He returned 4-5 days later like nothing ever happened.

This same uncle had an autistic child (my cousin Richard). My Aunt Judy was late picking him up one day, so he went into every house in the neighborhood that was unlocked and turned on all the water faucets. Major damage. Pennsylvania is a pretty awesome state. Similar to the south outside of Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, but with smallmouth bass.