Tim Burchett
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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I always say, yeah, I felt it right there towards the end, you know.
But I'm knocking on this guy's door.
down in Farragut, and he's putting his flag out.
And I said, I said, hey, brother, did you serve?
And he said, no, you know, I mean, it's East Tennessee, you know, and he kind of held his head down.
And I said, he said, I worked at Oak Ridge.
And I said, brother, I said, my daddy was on Okinawa when they dropped the bomb.
They were getting ready to invade mainland Japan.
I said, if my mom and daddy were alive today,
they would hug you because they put it together.
And he told me, he said, Tim, before I left, he said a funny thing.
He said, my wife worked there too.
And you know, she worked on a, I think he said he was a fuse or something.
And she was, I worked on a timer on the atomic bomb.
He said, I didn't know what she did the entire time that we were working there.
That's called compartmentalization.
And that's what you have here.