Staff Sergeant Jason Wenk was supposed to get a Purple Heart medal almost two decades ago, but he never got received it after his unit was disbanded. On Saturday, thanks to the help of two high school students, Wenk was presented with the medal.
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May.10.2021
It might seem implausible today, but Cold War dramas played out all across the hot desert of Arizona in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s.
And the stakes couldn’t have been higher. For the United States Air Force personnel who manned top-secret sites like the Titan II missile site near Green Valley, Arizona, nuclear war was a possible outcome.
Of course, it never came to that, and the disarmed nuclear missile site south of Tucson now serves as a museum and National Historic Landmark a testament to the era when Arizona’s schoolchildren were instructed on how to duck and cover in the event of a nuclear attack.