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[mommydama]

I just finished watching K-19: The Widowmaker with Brad and, while the movie wasn't really all that wonderfully made, the story was...like...WOW! Have you seen it? Do you know the story? At the end, the Cpt is saying how the guys that died trying to stop the nuclear reactor leak were "Heros of the Soviet Union", but...you know...they stopped a fuse from being lit that might very well have started a nuclear war with the USA! If that sub had blown...well, I don't even want to think about it really. But civilization as we know it might very well be history. So they are more than "Heros of the Soviet Union" they are...Heros of the WORLD!!

Brad laughed at me when I jumped up from the couch and said that. But it is really, totally true! I'm just in total awe right now. It wasn't like they were going to an easy, quick death either. That was a horrific way to die. But they did it and saved their crewman (which is probably what they were most thinking about), their country, and very likely the world! Amazing to me! Just...like...amazing. I have no words.

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I'm never sure if people fully understand what would happen if something happened to a reactor.
When we lived here before there was a huge earthquake. Aaron was on watch while the sub was in port for overhaul. He said the boat really rocked and rolled and that additionally the reactor moved a bit on the ground. That just scares me, especially considering how many missiles are on his sub.