Does Virilio know about this?!
"...the Strategic Air Command Memorial Chapel at Offutt Air Force Base was built in 1956. It includes a sanctuary with seating for 360 people, stained glass windows and an educational-administrative center...The stained glass window on the north wall of the narthex, or vestibule, features words from the Air Force hymn, and the seals of the Department of the Air Force and the Strategic Air Command. Windows on the east wall depict significant events of duties associated with the Second, Eighth, Fifteenth, and Sixteenth Air Forces. A detail from the Sixteenth Air Force window shows the famous Red Telephone, symbolic of the Strategic Air Command's global alert readiness. Small windows near the chapel's main entrance and on the west wall represent specific air divisions and wings within the Strategic Air Command. The windows reflect the cold war missions of the 389th Strategic Missile Wing, the 72d bombardment Wing, the 451st Strategic Missile Wing, and the 99th Bombardment Wing. The stained glass windows of SAC's Memorial Chapel depict the duality of its mission — messages of hope and guidance are mixed with the grim imagery of global nuclear warfare."
http://www.nebraskastudies.org/0900/frameset_reset.html?http://www.nebraskastudies.org/0900/stories/0901_0130.html
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