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This tunnel is known as a  mole hole. The Blast doors inside will withstand a nuclear blast above the mountain. Construction trucks were stopped here for security clearance to enter the construction site.  As the Cuban Missile Crisis wound down, the 2nd Ranger Bn, of Ft. Lewis, WA, was tasked to support AP security forces with lethal authority to stop forced entry to the AF/SAC complex. We envisioned tactics then used by terrorists now, like driving tankers of fuel or explosives into SAC to block entrances. Captain Don Kelly, 2nd Ranger Bn.

1972 started working on hard copy genealogy, lots of letters and phone calls involved.  1988 exchanged data with researchers by BB located in Ireland. Then the internet had no Google or Yahoo search engines. We had to pound through long lists of hotlinks.  1996 posted IRGenWeb website for County Leitrim. That was the first county of what would become IrelandGenWeb later that year. We did not join WorldGenWeb because of their politics. 1997 joined IAGenWeb as CC for Des Moines County, Iowa. At the time I had assumed that my great grandmother Williamson was born here. Turned out she was born near Fort Des Moines in Polk County. Ancestors Beebe and Williamson passed through Des Moines and Lee Counties in 1849/1850 era to eventually settled in Shelby County, Iowa. 3gp Williamson stopped at Council Bluffs, married and lived in several counties before finally settling in Galland's Grove TWP in Shelby County, IA. 3gp Beebe arrived Lee County 1850 as a young wagon maker, married a lady from Des Moines County, then in 1851 moved to Shelby County, IA where he was the first elected sheriff of the county.    Great grandma Williamson Beebe said she was born in 'Demoin Ioway' (sic), but in retrospect she was born near Fort Des Moines, Iowa in 1864. She lived until 1948 and often related stories from her youth. Today my front door is in Forest Grove, Oregon, and my door is always open. This is a small college town, once a river boat terminus on the Tualatin River, with a history reaching back as far as 1833. If I am not working in Iowa, you will find me working here in Oregon, or Arkansas, Nevada or Arizona.

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