Comments by "Mike Black" (@RevMikeBlack) on "The History Guy: History Deserves to Be Remembered"
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My mother was a civil service employee at Myrtle Beach AFB hospital in South Carolina. The Air Force was heavily involved in community activities and USAF officers often visited our school, always with ultra cool stuff in hand. One day in June 1969 a Minuteman arrived in Myrtle Beach to "show the colors" in our annual Sun Fun parade. I was the alpha science geek in my sixth grade class, so my mother asked the Base Commander if I could visit the Minuteman in the hangar where they were storing it and he agreed. Boy howdy did he agree! The next day I was instructed to wait in my Scout uniform on the front steps of the base hospital for further instructions. At the appointed time, two APs pulled up in a VIP vehicle, got out, saluted tiny little me and said, "Sir, we have orders to escort you to the Minuteman missile." They loaded me in the car, drove me to the hangar and let me play on the Minuteman for fifteen minutes. It was beyond awesome! In hindsight, I'm sure the missile was completely inert and almost certainly a public relations parade item, but on that June day in 1969 I felt like I was king of the planet... and the United States Air Force nade a friend for life.
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