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Just checking out the 203 messages that have accumulated in this new section of Joe's empire.
You think the Cold War was misnamed?? Couldn't agree less. Sitting alert in far Northern Maine with fully loaded B52's in 40 below weather. Every morning driving out to check their systems and sitting in them for a half hour or more if things check out or half a day if they didn't. Midnight klaxons. Running to the aircraft, pulling chocks, taxing out only to be told it's an exercise. Standing around for an hour or two while the bird is recocked and stamping your feet to get the circulation circulating. It was a cold Cold War. And what can us Vietnam era veterans who never fired a shot say about what we did?? We ensured that nothing happened. Man, that's cold. |
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For reference, the above message is a reply to a message where: Point well made. Plenty of hot shootings, revolutions, civil wars going on. Yes--shootings are not cold. And there were a number of other death tollss beyond Asia in the cold war. Not many U.S. lives, but others. For example the Poland Resistance, Romanian Resistance & the Hungarian Revolution. Also plenty of killings in East Germany, under Russian communist tyranny. The Cuban Revolution is another example of casualties of communist warfare. And recall the Cuban Missile Crisis -- no shooting, but . . . . Examples all over the globe. Wiki -- List of conflicts related to the Cold War Click Here Some reports still call the tensions with Russia a continuing cold war, but others point to break up of USSR in 1991 from Gorbachov's actions. We could agree that the Cold War was perhaps misnamed. |