My Dad and Senator John Heinz, a scene from Mr Rogers

MY GOSH, DAD WAS SMART!
This story was written by Bob Geertz recently.

My dad designed missile detectors 

CNN just told viewers that Trump has no plans on how to deal with Russia being so aggressive. Ummmm, how about reassuring America that our military is building up our missile defense system that Obama cut out of the picture? Just for the record, way back in 91 in the first Gulf War, which was stupid, but anyways, at the end of the war, my father called me up from work telling me to watch the news tonight as he is on it. 

 I tuned in and found that previously he was not allowed to discuss anything with anyone but he and his boss were on the news telling then Senator John Heinz how they designed that which detects incoming scud missiles, thus sending the patriot missiles to intercept them. When my Dad got done explaining the basics of what they did, John reached out his hand and in a very corny voice said, "Well, thank you for doing such a great job." My Dad cracked up as I joked how it looked like a scene straight out of Mr Rogers.
Written by Bob Geertz