Homer Hickam made an interesting comment on TV this morning. In case you don't know who 
he is, Homer was a poor West Va miner's son who worked his  
way up to being an employee/scientist for NASA. He wrote a book called "Rocket 
Boy" which was later made into a great movie called "October Sky."   
                                                                                          
This morning he was interviewed and said this, about the one-shot shoot down of the 
crippled satellite: "If this country's head was on straight,    
they would be holding a ticker tape parade for the Crew of the Cruiser, USS Lake 
Erie..."                                                           
                                                                                          
"This one rocket firing boosted our National defense 100 fold . N Korea, Iran, 
China, Russia, all know now that we have a safety net that can       
accurately stop their incoming missiles even if they are out of the earth's 
atmosphere."                                                            
                                                                                          
"Of course, that was the plan all along, and it was a dandy plan. I just hope that 
the next person in the White House doesn't scrap the system and  
begin baking cookies for the enemy."                                               
                                                                 
If the wrong person wins they may do just that, and that makes me a little 
nervous."                                                                
                                                                                        
"At any rate, Kudos to the Officers & Crew of the USS Lake Erie. WELL DONE, BLUE 
JACKETS!!"

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