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Title: TM-61 / MGM-1 Cruise Missile on a static display... in a church parking lot?
Post by: bayonetbrant on September 06, 2020, 10:48:21 PM

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MGM-1_Matador

There's one of these out at a church parking lot at the intersection of NC 111 and Big Daddy's Road (I am *not* making this up) in the middle of nowhere in eastern NC

Title: Re: TM-61 / MGM-1 Cruise Missile on a static display... in a church parking lot?
Post by: Sir Slash on September 06, 2020, 11:27:58 PM

The Church of the Immaculate Interception?    :biggrin:

Title: Re: TM-61 / MGM-1 Cruise Missile on a static display... in a church parking lot?
Post by: bbmike on September 07, 2020, 08:58:12 AM

The founders of the Gamma World cryptic alliance The Radioactivists?

Title: Re: TM-61 / MGM-1 Cruise Missile on a static display... in a church parking lot?
Post by: Sir Slash on September 07, 2020, 10:59:10 PM

Could be the Founders of that crazy group that worshipped the missile in the second, "Planet of the Apes" movie back in 1970. Or maybe Lex Luthor got Religion.  :worried: