Let us read it for you. Listen now. Your browser does not support the audio element. One of my earliest memories is an embroidered patch on the sleeve of my father's flight suit.My father was in the Air Force, and when I was very young we lived at Griffiss Air Force Base in upstate New York. The patch belonged to Strategic Air Command. It showed a mailed fist emerging from a cloud and clutching lightning bolts. I was fascinated by it long before I understood what it represented. At the time, SAC stood at the center of America's nuclear deterrent....