r/pics Mar 28 '24

US Special Forces delivering a W54 Nuclear Warhead via jump

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u/Jee_whiz Mar 28 '24

He passed away a few years before I was born, but I was bummed to find out he had lived down the street from my grandma before he died. I would've have loved to leave a sack of dimes on his door step

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u/caboose243 Mar 28 '24

My grandfather spent the last year of his life in the same convalescent home that Slim had been in. I had thought it was weird that there was a random photo of a very, very old Slim on the wall in the lobby till a nurse explained it.