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A newlywed couple were in the midst of unsuccessful fertility treatments at a nearby center during the time of the Oklahoma City bombing which occurred at 9:02 am on April 19, 1995. The personal heartbreak and simultaneous loss of 15 children at the day care center in the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building and its aftermath set a sorrowful resonating tone of great sadness, acceptance, and getting on with life for the veteran marathon runner and his wife.

My Cold War Life Story, is a memoir of a young man growing up in America in the 1960s and 1970s, then serving in the Unted States Air Force from the late 1970s to the early 1990s. His life story chronicles competing ideologies that spanned over three decades during the worldwide spread of Marxist-Leninism, socialism, and communism, that emanated from the Soviet Union. It is a personal time capsule of silent battles in Europe, Asia, and Central America until the end of the Cold War in 1991, and the follow-on retirements of that era's military aircraft through the mid-1990s.