Several photographs, beginning with this one, I dated them November 1974; however, that previous photograph of my visit to Havelock was from their camera and marked on the back by Beth as August '74. I would visit the Zito extended family, and even meet Den and David's father and mother, and that would be over a Thanksgiving weekend. But that would be a year or two later and not in 1974. So, August '74 is far more likely to have been when I flew down to North Carolina, perhaps via Norfolk and Piedmont Airlines. I know for certain that I returned to my connecting flight on a YS-11 Japanese-made turboprop.
So, these photographs indicate that I had a busy summer that first year in Minot. I had been in Vandenberg in the Spring. In June I had accompanied that "can" to Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio. My mom flew up to visit in August, and later in August I flew to North Carolina to visit the Zito's.
Here they are getting ready to open the door to Beth's car, a Chevy Malibu, I believe.
Missile Launch Facility (Golgotha)
I know it now.
As long ago as these were implanted
there is no war.
At the point of succeeding fear,
through the great, wide extremities of earth,
these silver spikes are driven.
The heart is spared,
but spirit-urges lie as a sacrifice.
Fenced-in, connected sections cross the plains,
stunned against the thought of taking life.
We bind both savior and vampire alike,
each victim.
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