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Sr. Perspective A feline flo sser • Pa ge 29 “ Sr. Perspect To succeed in life, you need three things: ” a wishbone, a backbone and a funny bone. - Reba McEntire i ve PAGE 1 PRSRT STD U.S. POSTAGE PAID GLENWOOD, MN PERMIT NO. 177 Return Service Requested APRIL 2023 vol 30 no. 7-R srperspective.com RUNESTONE edition GRAB ONE • I’M FREE! ‘It was total devastation’ Ortonville man was on site during the Damascus nuclear missile explosion in 1980 BY SCOTT THOMA scott@thomabooks.com Not a day goes by that Jim Sandaker of Or- tonville doesn’t reflect on how close he was to a nuclear catastrophe that could have killed hundreds of thousands of people in the southern United States. Sandaker was a 19-year-old Propellant Transfer System (PTS) technician in the United States Air Force when a two-stage rocket carry- ing a 9-megaton nuclear warhead exploded in its silo following an accident on Sept. 18, 1980, outside Damascus, Ark. “It was the loudest thing I’ve ever heard in my life,” said Sandaker,
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