A COLD WAR VETERAN'S MEMORIAL

The sun was going down at 8:00 p.m. on a warm September evening in 1958. August Kahl and his 15 year old son, Loren, were loading tomatoes into their farm truck so they could get an early start from their farm in Inver Grove Heights to the market at South St. Paul, Minnesota the next morning.

The sound of jet engines high overhead were nothing new to the Kahls. They had heard the sound before. There were the new jet airliners landing at Wold-Chamberlain Field 15 miles away, and there were the Air Force bombers on training missions that could be heard every so often. But tonight, the sound seem...