Links to ‘The Cold War: What We Saw’, Podcast Series by Bill Whittle

Thanks for writing and publishing the cold war series. I was born in 1937, well before WWII and lived through the war, the cold war, the Korean war, and was vulnerable to the draft for the unspeakably bloody Vietnam War. Since I was there, experienced every minute of it, and remember it all as if it was last year; I don’t really want to nor need to hear about it again.

There are many alive today who don’t even know or care that it all happened. It is considered old, dead, forgotten, and irrelevant history. They need to hear it so that they might understand that voting for Socialism/Communism/Totalitarianism is a mistake that can cost the destruction of technological civilization and the lives of nearly everyone alive today. The only thing free about it is the wholesale despair, poverty, death, and destruction that will follow if they get their wishes for free stuff fulfilled. Bread and circuses – weeee! Followed by the rivers of blood and mountains of dead bodies.

I remember far too much about those years. I participated in the civil defense effort in a small Midwestern rural community and observed/heard a huge formation of B47’s (I remember well over 20 of them) flying overhead.

I remember duck and cover, bomb shelters, and the whole scary thing. The Berlin blockade, the flying of food to the trapped Berliners, and that whole horrible mess of the Hungarian uprising. I heard President Reagan saying those fateful words “… Tear down this wall” over black and white television. I remember the news casts about the actual taring down of the wall and the world wide joy of the collapse of the USSR. I do not need to relive it.