Cold War Patriots

[jimtr6]

Anybody have any dealings or know anything about Cold War Patriots? I recently received a letter from them offering a “free commemorative coin” to honor former Oak Ridge Nuclear Facilities workers. I was about to trash it as just another money solicitation by non-profits until I connected Oak Ridge and my late uncle who worked at the nuclear facility and ammunition plants in Chattanooga.
Of course now I regret not encouraging or listening more closely to his stories about his experiences at Oak Ridge. I do offer the usual excuse: Young and Stupid.
So, if you can help me or have any of your own stories about Y12, I'd love to hear them.
Jim

 

[Ivan the Butcher]

The were and are real cold war patriots! However, late night TV is full of lawery wanting to sue on their behalf and "Mints" that are wanting to sell you and me commemorative coins! Two old sayings come to mind ; !) Let the buyer Beware (caveat em tor) and 2) Follow the money! Ivan

 

[S&W Fan]

Yes, my neighbor Dave (75yr old retiree) recently was honored to be named a Cold War Patriot. He spent almost 50 years in the aerospace and nuclear fields and has worked on some very cool projects with most of the big name companies.

He's a very stoic guy and when he showed me the invitation he got a bit misty eyed.

 

[mstem]

I think that anyone that was in the military during the Cold War should be honored. After all, we did win the Cold War. Or rather they did.

 

[m1gunner]

I think that anyone that was in the military during the Cold War should be honored. After all, we did win the Cold War. Or rather they did.

Already done:

Info on the .gov certificate Defense.gov News Release: COLD WAR RECOGNITION CERTIFICATE APPROVED

 

[Roadtrash]

They've been talking about that for a couple of years now, glad to see they finally got around to it.

 

[rwsmith]

Read a book......

Anybody have any dealings or know anything about Cold War Patriots? I recently received a letter from them offering a “free commemorative coin” to honor former Oak Ridge Nuclear Facilities workers. I was about to trash it as just another money solicitation by non-profits until I connected Oak Ridge and my late uncle who worked at the nuclear facility and ammunition plants in Chattanooga.
Of course now I regret not encouraging or listening more closely to his stories about his experiences at Oak Ridge. I do offer the usual excuse: Young and Stupid.
So, if you can help me or have any of your own stories about Y12, I'd love to hear them.
Jim

About women workers at Oak Ridge. Since they weren't told ANYTHING about the project she concentrated on life in the camp. Though they figured out enough to make it really interesting, but everybody knew not to talk about it. If someone talked about it people noticed that all of a sudden they just weren't there any more. One thing that was funny was how they were told just enough to accomplish the task like, "Product A goes into tank B where the contents of tank C are added then the product is moved to the next stage. Of course after the A bombs were dropped people found out quickly what was going on. Until they got the place developed a bit people couldn't go between their quarters and other locations because of the very deep mud.

 

[rwsmith]

We'll never know

Submarine accidents Thresher, Scorpion, Cochino, Bonefish. Nuclear/radiation accidents and accidents of the handling of nuclear weapons (silo fires, broken arrows, etc). Construction accidents, Medical and other testing gone awry. Airplane shoot downs military and civilian. Casualties of the Space Race.

In war and peace and cold war there are people, soldiers and civilians who give their lives to perform a service and it's not found out about until many years later due to secrecy or is just hushed up. There is no telling how many people did this that we are never going to hear about.