Downwinder

Downwinder

I am writing this from a personal level. My wife was a downwinder. I say was, because she died from being exposed to a fiendish plan of the United States Government. 

The first nuclear weapons test at the Nevada Proving Ground took place on January 27, 1951 about 65 miles northwest of Las Vegas. 

In 1962, 140 nuclear bombs later, the tests were moved underground.

History has shown us that government can not be trusted to act on our best welfare.

They have repeatedly used us as Guinea pigs in a multitude of experimental tests. Most being done without our knowledge or consent.

Current tests are being done on our military on an ongoing basis.

My own wife, Pearlene lived in a small community in Northern Arizona. She was doing what other little girls and boys were doing: going to school, playing outside, and growing up. What she didn’t know is that less than 400 miles away, nuclear bombs were being detonated by war mongering men and women who were only doing their jobs.

Harry S Truman was president. He allowed and supported nuclear testing under his administration.

So did Dwight D. Eisenhower, who was president from 1954-1961.

John F Kennedy became president in 1962. Under his administration, the testing was stopped.

I was also affected by the radiation fallout during that time. I was living in Escalante, Utah in 1955 until 1960.

There have been thousands of needless deaths because of this policy.

in 1997 the National Cancer Institute found that much of the nation was blanketed with fallout from the atmospheric tests performed in Nevada from 1951 to 1962. Most of it was concentrated in Nevada, Utah and Arizona, within 300 miles of the proving ground.

I am a little bit angry at the waste of precious lives, especially  for those close to me.

The government has set up a compensation program to pay off the families of those who were and are still being affected by this diabolical program. 

It is little consolation.

My biggest concern is that those who were individually responsible for these actions remain mostly anonymous, under the cloak of national security or only listed as government employees.

“I was only doing my job,” does little to excuse someone of gross negligence or criminal activity.

I lived in Albuquerque, New Mexico for 5 years and during that time I learned that there are more nuclear bombs under that city than anywhere on the planet.

I went to a party in Albuquerque and during the small talk I ask several people what they did for a living. 

The Answer?

I make WMD’s. 

Weapons of mass destruction.

I was shocked!

It is time to wake up, pull our head out of the sand, and take a stand for right.

If you support in any way, programs that endorse or support these kinds of government programs, it should review your priorities.

“But, I only put the parts together.”

“I didn’t know.”

“We only supply the electrical circuits.”

Excuses like this will not stand up when the deaths continue to mount in program after program.

Today, is National Downwinders Day.

Last year, the U.S. Senate voted unanimously to honor downwinders with a special day of recognition.

Yea!? 

Most are dead!

My sweetheart is gone. All she did was to stand on a corner in Winslow Arizona.