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The Once-Classified Tale of Juanita Moody
Smithsonian Magazine ^
| 3/1/2021
| David Wolman
Posted on 08/30/2021 2:41:11 AM PDT by Oshkalaboomboom
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To: Oshkalaboomboom
To: Oshkalaboomboom
I remember the Cuban Missile Crisis. I was a kid but I wasn't *totally* clueless regarding things like nuclear weapons. I recall being very frightened for a couple of days.
To: Oshkalaboomboom
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posted on
08/30/2021 2:56:49 AM PDT
by
Fury
To: Oshkalaboomboom
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posted on
08/30/2021 2:56:58 AM PDT
by
JonPreston
(Q: Never have so many, been so wrong, so often)
To: Gay State Conservative
I was in 3rd grade. We practiced atomic bomb drills and the basement of the school was full of Civil Defense survival barrels.
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posted on
08/30/2021 3:21:59 AM PDT
by
MCF
(If my home can't be my Castle, then it will be my Alamo)
To: Oshkalaboomboom
You do know that Smith’s rag makes stuff up, leaves out important details and is generally not a credible source for anything historical, but is good for starting a fire, wrapping fish, lining a birdcage?
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posted on
08/30/2021 3:30:34 AM PDT
by
PIF
(They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
To: Oshkalaboomboom
Fascinating article, thanks....
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posted on
08/30/2021 3:53:53 AM PDT
by
Hot Tabasco
(Without potatoes, life has no meaning......)
To: Oshkalaboomboom
My brother was on a destroyer based out of Gitmo and assigned to the battle group that "watched the reds coming and going into and out of Cuba.
He told me he thought that we were going to war, and for a short time, that his crew were part of the walking dead.
I was stationed in Germany and we were on alert and figured it was only a matter of time before a shooting war began.
The fear was that the red tanks would come across the Chec/Kraut border and we knew we were going to be the "holding force" i.e. cannon fodder.
The Sunday Masses were well attended during that period, the fear of immanent death brings out the latent religious beliefs in most people.
I'm sure us low life peons will never know how close we really came to the big bang, the secrets lie with JFK, his crew and his Russian counterparts.
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posted on
08/30/2021 3:58:23 AM PDT
by
USS Alaska
(NUKE ALL MOOSELIMB TERRORISTS, NOW.)
To: USS Alaska
My dad was the XO of a Gearing class destroyer that participated in the Cuban Blockade...
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posted on
08/30/2021 4:40:27 AM PDT
by
rlmorel
(Leftists are The Droplet of Sewage in a gallon of ultra-pure clean water.)
To: Gay State Conservative
Bookmark for later read. My family was in Guantanamo Bay then. I was in the fifth grade. I will never forget the minute my class was told we were being evacuated, and we were in a wartime situation.
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posted on
08/30/2021 4:48:08 AM PDT
by
gitmo
(If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?)
To: PIF
So don’t read the article. Use the subject as a starting point for your own research.
To: Oshkalaboomboom
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posted on
08/30/2021 5:09:18 AM PDT
by
ealgeone
To: Oshkalaboomboom
Thank you for what you do.
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posted on
08/30/2021 5:38:44 AM PDT
by
sauropod
(Bidet was no prize before he put the “d” in “dementia.” - Schlichter)
To: Oshkalaboomboom
A gifted and exceptional women, but if not for the gender it would not be a story in the SMITHSONIAN.
One of her Fort Meade colleagues told me that a gaggle of young staffers, nearly all of them men, could frequently be seen trailing Moody down the halls, scribbling notes while she spoke.
The dream of feminism
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posted on
08/30/2021 6:12:22 AM PDT
by
daniel1212
( Turn to the Lord Jesus as a damned+destitute sinner, trust Him to save + be baptized + follow Him!)
To: Oshkalaboomboom
Not necessary to read the article since Smithsonian Mag is garbage. Should not be allowed to post anything from it on FR.
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posted on
08/30/2021 7:11:46 AM PDT
by
PIF
(They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
To: JonPreston
The article you provided an English translation for was already in English. The link in post #1 is the article that is in Spanish.
To: Oshkalaboomboom
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posted on
08/30/2021 7:16:56 AM PDT
by
JonPreston
(Q: Never have so many, been so wrong, so often)
To: gitmo
I went to Gitmo in the 1980’s. It was the only place I had ever been that had a swimming pool with water too hot to swim in.
To: Oshkalaboomboom; ASA Vet; archy; xzins; SandRat; HarleyLady27; BlackFemaleArmyColonel; ...
A good article about Signals Intelligence and how it works.
ASA Vet, I recommend you sent it to your ASA/Intel ping list.
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posted on
08/30/2021 1:59:03 PM PDT
by
GreyFriar
(Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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