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Armistice Day

By Richard | Published: 2009/11/11
Armistice Day the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month … when major com­bat ceased on the west­ern front (fight­ing con­tin­ued on other fronts). Armistice Day was offi­cially amended in the USA to Veteran’s Day in 1954 to honor all those who had served. To those of you, espe­cially my Dad, that [...]
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Fear and Cold War Culture

By Richard | Published: 2009/11/09
From Await­ing Armaged­don: U.S. paral­y­sis on civil defense could be cred­ited to an inabil­ity to face the prospect of nuclear war or sim­ply to a sense of futil­ity. … Intel­lec­tu­ally, Amer­i­cans knew the haz­ards of nuclear war, but Amer­ica was not ready [dur­ing the Cuban Mis­sile Cri­sis] … The United States sim­ply had refused to accept [...]
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