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To: coug who wrote (9874)	4/30/2004 11:05:22 PM
From: cosmicforce	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20773

Hey coug, You know, we all played war. My favorite TV show was "Combat!” starring Vic Morrow as a laconic sergeant (the exclamation point was a bayonet in the logo, of course). We also lived under near-certain doom from the Rusky missiles that were always targeting our neighborhoods. My dad and some of my friends' dads worked for Boeing, Lockheed, M/D and Hughes and made a lot of war materiel. So, it was pretty much a given that, if the Ruskies got out of control, we were all toast. For about 5 years after the Cuban Missile Crisis, my dad started hoarding supplies in the event that something happened. To remember this now seems surreal. We kids didn't figure that we'd die because we couldn't imagine some Russian starting the end of the world or if he did, then it would be quick. Then there was Dr. Strangelove. The truth is that any scheme that assures anything (like MAD) always has a flaw. No system is perfect. Dr. Strangelove personified that flaw.