We were closer to the nuclear war in the 1960’s than we ever imagined.
My Dad was a very good business man, well traveled, a great story teller and one who got others to share their stories. One of the stories my Father had told to him was received from a group of gentlemen after a business meeting followed by drinks. One of the gentlemen was a successful business man and a retired Air Force big bomber pilot. When my Dad mentioned he was worried about something, a former Officer in the Air Force advised that he never worried about anything after his experience during the Cuban missile crisis. The Captain told my Dad that he was based out of New England and was flying one of the giant bombers with a full payload of nuclear bombs that were fully activated and they were targeted for Havana, Cuba. This was during the Cuban Missile Crisis of the 1960’s when President Kennedy stared down the Soviet Prime Minister Khrushchev.
The former Pilot advised my Father that he had flown many missions but that they never had a full payload and the missiles were never activated. He advised they were never activated unless they had been ordered into war and were going to drop a full payload of fully activated nuclear bombs.
The Captain advised my Father that they were in formation flying south from New England on the way to bomb Cuba when they got the “call back” instructing them to return to base and that the mission had been called off.
When the Officer told that story to my Father and pointed out how close we had been to Nuclear War, he said that he never worried about anything major again.
We will all have our own time of crisis whether it is a threat of “Nuclear War” like back in the old days with the former Soviet Union or currently with the egotistical and immature young leader of North Korea. It could also be our own “Widowmaker Heart Attack”, automobile accident, stroke or some other traumatic event. We never know when the difficult storms of life will come. We only know that they will come.
We will want to be prepared when the “Storms of Life” come. You will want to have your estate planning in place, current with the law, have the right people in the right roles, and making sure you have mental disability planning, take care of the Surviving Spouse, and that you leave what you have, to whom you want, when you want, the way you want, and at the lowest possible overall cost to you and those you love.
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