Robins Air Force Base in Warner Robins in Houston County, Georgia — The American South (South Atlantic)
The Cold War
1940 - 1991
Museum of Aviation Freedom Park
Photographed by Brandon D Cross
1. The Cold War Marker
Inscription.
The Cold War, as it is known, was a conflict like no other. Dominating American life since 1945, it has cost Americans $4 trillion in defense expenditures, taken the lives of nearly 100,000 of their young men, ruined the careers of many others during the McCarthy witch hunts, led the nation into the horrors of Southeast Asian conflicts, and in the 1980s triggered the worst economic depression in forty years. There ara no battles and no defeated forces; there are survivors, not victors, and the peace has never been secure. Year after year the conflict flares, subsides, and flares again. On both sides the human desire for peace has met a stubborn and intractable adversary in the geopolitical struggle for domination. The Cold War ranges over four decades in a tangle of moves and countermoves, development and strategies and motives that influence our current policies in crucial ways. Dramatic events have brought us to the edge of war in Berlin, Budapest, Havana, Cairo, Peking and Teheran. The action moved from missile bases to ballot boxes, from chancelleries to lunar-landing sites, historic confrontations and meetings (Stalin, Churchill and FDR, Gen. Douglas MacArthur and, Harry Truman, the Shah and the Ayatollah, Mao Tsetun, Sadat and Brezhnev). Living with the nuclear threat has affected us as a people. The tensions of the Cold War have fundamentally changed the nature of our Presidency, the powers of our Congress, and the traditional openness of our society., Freedom Is Not Free
The Cold War, as it is known, was a conflict like no other. Dominating American life since 1945, it has cost Americans $4 trillion in defense expenditures, taken the lives of nearly 100,000 of their young men, ruined the careers of many others during the McCarthy witch hunts, led the nation into the horrors of Southeast Asian conflicts, and in the 1980s triggered the worst economic depression in forty years. There ara no battles and no defeated forces; there are survivors, not victors, and the peace has never been secure. Year after year the conflict flares, subsides, and flares again. On both sides the human desire for peace has met a stubborn and intractable adversary in the geopolitical struggle for domination. The Cold War ranges over four decades in a tangle of moves and countermoves, development and strategies and motives that influence our current policies in crucial ways. Dramatic events have brought us to the edge of war in Berlin, Budapest, Havana, Cairo, Peking and Teheran. The action moved from missile bases to ballot boxes, from chancelleries to lunar-landing sites, historic confrontations and meetings (Stalin, Churchill and FDR, Gen.
Douglas MacArthur and, Harry Truman, the Shah and the Ayatollah, Mao Tsetun, Sadat and Brezhnev). Living with the nuclear threat has affected us as a people. The tensions of the Cold War have
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fundamentally changed the nature of our Presidency, the powers of our Congress, and the traditional openness of our society.
Freedom Is Not Free
Erected by Museum of Aviation Robins Air Force Base.
Topics. This historical marker is listed in these topic lists: Parks & Recreational Areas • War, Cold. A significant historical year for this entry is 1940.
Location. 32° 35.448′ N, 83° 35.321′ W. Marker is in Warner Robins, Georgia, in Houston County. It is in Robins Air Force Base. It is at the intersection of Heritage Boulevard and Oak Avenue (U.S. 129), on the left when traveling north on Heritage Boulevard. The marker is located on the grounds of the Museum of Aviation, within Freedom Park, Robins Air Force Base, GA. Touch for map. Marker is at or near this postal address: 1942 Heritage Blvd, Warner Robins GA 31098, United States of America. Touch for directions.
Regionally, this marker is in Georgia’s Piedmont. It is also in the American South and specifically in the Deep South. Globally, it is in the North Atlantic Region, North America, the Western Hemisphere, the Western World, and the Anglosphere. Historically, it finds itself in what was once the territory of the Mississippian Culture, one of the original Thirteen Colonies, one of the Confederate States of America, and the Antebellum South.
Credits. This page was last revised on June 22, 2024. It was originally submitted on June 20, 2024, by Brandon D Cross of Flagler Beach, Florida. This page has been viewed 137 times since then and 11 times this year. Photos:1, 2. submitted on June 20, 2024, by Brandon D Cross of Flagler Beach, Florida. • Bernard Fisher was the editor who published this page.
