On November 9th, 1989 the Cold War was supposed to end, it didn't. The Russians took the United States by surprise.

The United States had been at war for almost four months with the Soviet Union and they still couldn't understand what was happening. Even as artillery shells started exploding on the streets of Seattle many people just stood there, stunned by shock and disbelief. War can be fascinating to watch on TV, but up close personally it's a whole other story. That was the reality in Seattle on that fateful day in the fall of '89. The US Army was fighting in Europe and elsewhere, and the US Navy was supposed to protect us from an invasion. But they failed. They were fooled, As the United States was fooled by the Soviet ruse. But as the first Soviet tanks started rolling off those freighters, a few of platoons tried to organize a desperate defense.

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