Thunderbangers at 4:00 a.m.

The weatherman got it right this time. I woke up wondering if it was bombers from Wright-Patt or F-18s from the Air National Guard. Then I remembered the forecast on the 11 o’clock news.

As a cold war kid growing up with elementary school air-raid drills, a thunderstorm like last night’s would have had me listening for the sirens. Imagine that, an innocent child afraid of bombs from the sky! Imagine a country devastated by hurricanes, tornados, and earthquakes – bombed out houses, bodies everywhere in the streets. Imagine if we had the power and the will to tame the storm.