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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Bombers with atomic bombs targeting Russia???? Huh?  This does not even make any sense.  Sarah Palin is this you?  Can you see Russia from your back yard? I am calling an anti-Russian  troll. [/quote]

Uh, it was called the Cold War.  Do you remember Mutual Assured Destruction?  My father was a B-52 pilot.  He carried nuclear weapons.  They were always on alert, meaning ther was always someone in the air at all times ready to go should the President have pushed the button.  The U.S. nuclear arsenal was built on three legs: ICBMs, SLBMs and nuclear armed bombers, all targeting the USSR.

I joined the State Department in the early 1990s and was stationed in Russia for four years.  My parents came to visit.  When we were standing on Red Square my father said he thought he'd never see this place other than through a bomb site!  :)

However, he was a big big military history buff, and he visited every single monument, museum, etc. related to the Soviet fighting in WWII.  When we visited St. Petersburg, we woke up and he was gone.  He had already found his way to the Seige of Leningrad Museum - and he did not speak a word of Russian!  :)

OP needs to get over the history!  It's not as if OP's FIL held any animosity towards the Russians.  He was just assigned a role to play, just as their were others on the other side playing a similar role.  [/quote]

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