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NOTE Placeholder transcript for the Phase 2B prototype. Real recording
     ships after the interview. Composited from published Fort Hancock
     veteran interviews at the Monmouth County Park System.

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We knew what the missiles could do. We did not know what they had

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in them. That was need-to-know, and we did not need to know. Our

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job was the radar. You had a sector, you had a target, you called

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it up the chain. The chain decided. I ran the console from sixty-one

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to sixty-five, four to twelve, three days on and one off. In the

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winter the wind came off the water and the little heater under

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the console kept your feet warm and nothing else. The Cuba year

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we didn't sleep much. Nobody talked about it either.

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When the deactivation came in seventy-four I was already home in

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Highlands. The story about nuclear warheads was in the paper before

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the eighties. My wife looked up from the article and said, so you

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knew? And I said, no. I honest to God did not know.