#like if you said a couple of those were from 1984 and i didnt know his face i would prob be like Yeah i believe that

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MY DAD.

I have been thinking about writing about my dad for a few days now. he was a career navy man and my sister and I are navy brats.

I guess it was triggered by listening to a beach boys song called the "sloop john b". he told me they used to sing that song to raise thier sprits when he was stationed on his ship. I will post it below.

he was on the ship because of the Iranian hostage crisis in 79- 80. they were off of the coast in the Indian ocean.

our embassy was overrun and our people were takin hostage. they made a movie about it. it is called Argo.

basicly what his boat was there to do was to go back and fourth in front of the Russians and try and draw fire from thier fleet to get something started according to him.

I know his boat was dusted by a MIG ( with what is anybody's guess. according to my dad a few people got sick.) some of the Russian boats took a run at them a few times. that must have been a pants shitting moment. (or two.)

it was a small boat and a missile would have ripped it in half. he came back with a few grey hairs. I dont think he was ever quite the same. with good reason, who would be.

the name of his boat was the William H Stanley CG32.

it was decommissioned and used for target practice and currently sits on the ocean floor as is my understanding.

they used to call the cruise they were on the Indian Ocean regatta, and they called the ship the Willy H Hotdog.

why you ask?

I think they just wanted a fancy name for thier mission or cruise or trip, or whatever you call it. and because thier supply ship didnt show up for a couple of weeks and they had to live on hotdogs for that time.

they had a patch made for that cruise, it was a blue bell with " Indian Ocean regatta written in fancy script with Roman numerals on it. I used to have it but it was stolen with a lot of other stuff, i didnt have a safe place to keep it. i was a young man and homeless as well as strung out on drugs. I feel sad when I think about all that stuff. I'll never see that patch again, but at least I have the memories.

my memories of my dad are bitter sweet. he died abruptly early christmas morning in 1984 of a massive heart attack. he was 37.

some of the things I remember, are long lectures and some pretty severe spankings.

he apologized to me once, for beating me as a kid, I dont remember anything out of the ordinary. back in those days that's how it was handled. I've never hit the goose though. the reason being is that it was no deterrent for me, and all it did was piss me off, and I was a kid when he told me that so how old was I at the time? I must have blocked it out.

my mom did say that he got carried away a few times, but like I said, i dont remember.

i do recall not having any food at the house for a few weeks at a time and living on peanut butter and frozen orange juice, along with school lunches. this did happen on more than one occasion, I didnt think anything of it until I was an adult.

there were also good times though, we would go out to eat and to the movies.

he tried to teach me to drive once.

he turned me on to the book dune which i have read several times, i cant wait for the new movie to come out. he died just before the first one came out, we were supposed to go see it together. it's to bad he is gonna miss this one too.

I have him to thank for my love of science fiction.

he also missed all of his grandchildren being born.

there is a lot of evidence that points to the fact that he knew he was going to die.

he just let it happen. as for the reasons, one can only guess.

I used to have dreams about him and I was happy to see him, then I would wonder why he pretended to die and then comeback.

now my dreams are just angry.

as a matter of fact I had a dream with him in it last night.

all I can remember is being angry at him.

at any rate all my friends liked him, I guess he was kind of the cool dad.

he cooked well. he taught me how to make french toast but that was a long time ago and I forgot most of it. I remember it being really good though.

I loved him very much, and I dont think there is a day that goes by where I dont think about him.

it took me a long time to enjoy christmas again.

last year was pretty much the first time that I felt okay with it.

I used to put on a happy face for the family.

now its genuine.

I have to thank my son, and my niece and nephews for that.

3/6/20

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How much will my insurance go up for an 18 year old male, with a leaving the scene ticket and driving with an expired license ticket go up? I was at college yesterday, I hit a car. I didnt leave a note, i was not thinking straight from pulling an all nighter for an exam. And I did not call the police because no one hurt, in fact, the other person was not even in his car. And i did not want to miss my exam.. I know, i could of wrote a note, but im an idiot... i feel like ****. i feel bad for my father, his car and stuff.. Im going to get a job to pay for it.. i cant let him pay for my shitty mistakes.. so i was wondering, how much will my insurance go up.. :(""

Car insurance helpp!!?

Do you have to be over the age of 21 to be able to drive someone else's car on your own insurance policy, if that car has insurance and your are given permission by the driver. It states on my policy that i can but have herd multiple times that you must be over 21. Im with Co-Op. Thanks.""

My insurance is like $300 a month...help?

I just got a free quote from whipers.com but my insurance is still a little high...what can I do to lower it to like $75 a month or is that not realistic?

Fastest accelerating car in the insurance group 1-3?

Hello, I am going to be turning 17 shortly and would like some advise on which car that would be very responsive and quick. My budget for the car itself is 1450 but there could be a bit of flexibility. As I am sure you all know, insurance for new drivers is very high, so I want something in between groups one and three as I believe that is the area that I can afford. Could I also please ask for serious answers. I am not not wanting to drive irresponsibly, if that is a worry to some contributors. Thanks.""

Car insurance quotes?

when i turn 17 (few months) and hopefully pass my test 'm going to most likely going to get a ford fiesta however ive already looked at claims on multiple cars including the fiesta type i will probably get and every quote is around 5000-7000 so i was wondering if i should (give the car to my mum or dad) and get insured on them for a considerable lower price as the car im looking at is around 2000-3000 im not a boy racer or anything so im not gonna mod the car or rag it rotten i was wondering if i will be able to get away with it or should i just get insured on a car that costs less than the insurance? Thanks all that answer

What is the best insurance policy for a child age 6.5 year?

What is the best insurance policy for a child age 6.5 year?

Geico insurance: how so cheap?

geico's quotes are the cheapest. are their policy the cheapest also? whats the catch? how could State Farm, AllStates be so expensive and geico claims to be so cheap. Whats going on. I don't buy the every comapny is dift line they throw at you. How are they different? At claims time?""

Drivers Ed Questions On Insurance?

Fill In The Blank Words -assigned-risk insurance, blue book, bodily-injury insurance, car pooling, collision insurance, comprehensive insurance, deductible, depreciation, financial responsibility law, leasing, liability insurance, mass transportation, no-fault insurance policy, policy, premium, property-damage insurance, warranty- 1. Decrease of vehicle value due to its age. 2. Written guarantee that the seller will make repairs for a time period. 3. Lists the average price paid to dealers for various used vehicles. 4. Requires you to prove that you can pay for damages you may cause with your vehicle. 5. Specified amount you pat to an insurance company for insurance. 6. Set amount of money you personally pay for damages that is not paid by your insurance company. 7. Written agreement between you and your insurance company. 8. Type of insurance that is not concerned with who is to blame. 9. Provides minimum coverage for high-risk drivers. 10. Several methods of moving large numbers of passengers. 11. Several people commuting to work or school in one vehicle. 12. An alternate method of obtaining a vehicle other than by purchase. 13. Protects you against claims for another person's injuries or property damages when you are at fault. 14. A type of liability insurance that covers drivers who are at fault for injuries to other people up to specified limits. 15. A type of liability insurance that covers drivers who are at fault for damages to another person's property up to specified limits. 16. A type of insurance that provides coverage to pay the costs of repair or replacement of your vehicle up to specified limits. 17. Insurance that covers damage to your vehicle from non-collision events. One word per statement. I already have some answers but I just want to be 100% sure I'm right, thanks any answers are appreciated.""

How much will a small tooth chip cost without insurance?

I live in Southern California just so you can get an idea... Okay, last night I was watching a movie with my boyfriend and laying down in front of him. As he was going to take a drink from his glass I stretched and accidentally elbowed his drink and heard CLANK! and he got up to spit some stuff out of his mouth. The chip isn't big at all and it's on the front, left tooth on the outer corner. It's very small (almost unnoticeable if you're more than 2-3 feet away and he's smiling big) and it LOOKS as if it would be an easy fix. I have assured him that I will pay for it as he owns a barber shop and his presence is important to him and I feel very badly. How much do you think this fix (looks easy!) would cost me without insurance AND do dentists take payments? I am getting dental/medical from my work in a couple of weeks but I don't think it would cover him. Please let me know and sorry this is long!""

Medical insurance coordination of benefits help?

Husband & wife both have group medical insurance with their employers. His insurance is a bucket plan through Cigna called an HSA. It pays for the first $750 & then he has to meet another $750 before anything else is pd. Her insurance is Healthlink PPO with $250 deductible. If husband's insurance pays for his chiropractor bills in full (as not over $750 total) can these bills be submitted to her insurance to help meet the family deductible of $500? We live in IL. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

affordable health insurance in san antonio tx

affordable health insurance in san antonio tx

Affordable Health insurance for nannys...anyone know of any?

My wife recently switched jobs from a day care where she had health insurance to being a personal nanny for a family with 3 children. We were going to switch her to my health insurance, as my work only has me pay 15% of the cost. I thought this would be the same if I added my wife but we would have to pay full price for her costs (and while the insurance here is great, it is a Cadillac insurance, and is VERY expensive). My question is does anyone know of affordable insurance options for nannys?""

Corvette insurance. i need full coverage for a 1977. not collectors.where is the cheapest???????????????????

i will get collectors insurance in 2 months. right now i need full coverage to get the loan, transfer to me, and get it done friday. please help.""

Will My car insurance go up if a 16 year old gets a older 2 door car?

Will My car insurance go up if a 16 year old gets a older 2 door car?

Does anyone know of any cheap but good medical insurance?

I need affordable medical insurance!!!

Which cheap car insurance companies send the documantetion by Email only?

NOT by post, by EMAIL only""

Does anyone know how Obamas health plan is going to work?

If everyone will be required to have insurance, will the insurance offered be affordable? Will it be based on your income?""

Want to sell my insurance idea?

I have a unique idea 4 a short term insurance in south africa. How do i sell it 2 insurance companies?

""Car stolen, will insurance pay?

my car was stolen out of our driveway . i wanted to go to work and had everything in the car . i left to get my sleeping child andwhen i went out the car was gone . not even 3 minutes later. they recoverd the car . damaged but not the person yet . my husband is affraid that the insurance will not pay since the keys were in the car along with all my creditcards and house keys .the car was on our property next to the house . i have nightmares about it . please help

Any car insurance agents out there? Or at least somebody who knows a lot about car insurance?

I will be driving on my sixteenth birthday if I can get a job, because I will be responsible for paying ALL of my insurance. How much am I going to have to pay? I drive a 1989 Chevrolet Silverado. Plus I heard good grades have something to do with it (sometimes), I have an A average. Help!""

""I don't own a car, was involved in a wetreckless, and need good, cheap car insurance, can anyone help?!!?""

I don't own a car, was involved in a wetreckless, and need good, cheap car insurance, can anyone help?!!?""

Cheap insurance for a 95 reg 4.6 litre Range Rover as a young driver.?

I am aged 18, have had my license for over a year & have one years no claims discount. I have recently purchased a Range Rover with cost nothing to transfer over from the car already on my policy, however upon renewal it will cost me a whopping 4K to insure! Does anybody know of any companies which either specialise in this department or will be able to get me a cheaper quote? Currently I have tried both confused.com & comparethemarket.com but was wondering if there are some other cheaper companies which are a little more unknown. Would be really grateful if someone helps me find a cheaper quote as that is just daylight robbery.""

Car insurance and moving?

I'm going to buy a car soon, And then move pretty much right after that...It would be a good idea to get the insurance and plates and stuff before I go, obviously, but what will need to be done once I move? I heard that as long as I live in my parent's house, the insurance would be cheaper, well, I'd be moving out...so I have no idea how to get everything straightened around.""

Insurance rates of a new leased car vs. a used car?

I am looking for a car to drive, and it's my first car. I am wondering what the difference in insurance costs would be between: a) A brand new leased car b) A fairly old used car I know it depends on the type of car, but lets go with a honda accord, because that's what I would buy/lease. Also, I am 16. Is it possible for my dad to own the lease but designate me as the driver of the car?""

I have a health insurance question for baby?

Hey, I was wondering if there is a type of cheap health insurance me and my husband could get since we don't have any and are wanting to have a baby? We both work and have good jobs but, no insurance. Is there and insurance just to cover the baby because as long as the baby's needs are covered I could care less about us? That includes like before the baby is born but, all the doctor visits pertaining to the baby.""

Pay as you go car insurance in UK?

Hi My Insurance will be expire in feb 2013, In june 2013 iam going in a holiday for long term, so i need car insurance only for 4-5 months, is there any kind of pay as you go car insurance,,,,i got 2 years of experience as a driver, so how much will they charge for 1 month.? thank u""

How can the citizens pay the the deductibles for the only health insurance policies that are affordable?

I work 2 part time jobs and neither offer health insurance, so in 2014 I will have to buy some. One comparable to the one I had when I worked a full time job would cost $600 a month but would cover prescriptions with a $20 copay for generics with a $1500 deductible and a $4500 out of pocket maximum. That is out of what I can afford. The one I can afford is only $219 a month but has a $7500 deductible which would have to be met for any benefits and there is a $12,500 out of pocket maximum. If I got very sick I would be wiped out with that one, so it seems that I am in a Catch 22. I don't make that much money ($8 and $10 for the 2 jobs where I work 24 and 18 hours a week respectively.) Now I just pay the doctor out of pocket and I paid $375 this year for office visits and $150 for medicine. That was affordable and now I am forced to pay a premium in addition to the same amounts I paid for the same service. This thing is making me nervous. Affordable to me is no insurance. Give me a cyanide pill if I get a terminal diagnosis because being in the hospital and wiped out financially is not a good quality of life.""

How do I save on auto insurance?

I want to save on auto insurance.....what factors can lower your rate? I need to know things such as an alarm, and kept in the garage, but what other factors can help me getting a low rate? Thanks everyone""

How much is car insurance for a 16 year old?

How much is car insurance for a 16 year old?

Is it necessary to keep a copy of my car registration and auto insurance in my wallet?

I have a copy of my auto insurance information and car registration in my car already in the glove box. But is it necessary to keep a copy on my wallet just in case? Just curious my mom keeps telling me to keep it in my wallet but I never needed to take it out in my life. I got pulled over once and I just took out the registration in my glove box and it was fine.

No Proof of Car Insurance?

I got a ticket for no proof of insurance, I forgot to pay it, now I must see the judge, I didn't have insurance, yes very very dumb, I know, my question is..will I just be fined or is there jail time involved. I imagine there will be just a heavy penality in fines""

Can you register for car insurance as an LLC?

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How much would a person pay for car insurance?

Let's say I buy a BMW M5 made from the year 2006, how much would I pay for the insurance? Also, let's say it's a new car, too... If you just buy a brand new car, how much do you pay every month? (I'm doing a research... so, please help me)""

19 Year Old Female & NO health insurance.. HELP!?

I am 19 years old, I am female, and I am BROKE. I live on my own. I live in Missouri. I work part time (or LESS) and only make minimum wage. I have no insurance and can't really afford any right now. I really need to visit the doctors. I've looked at a bunch of different insurance that the state offers, but unfortunately it doesn't really apply to me because i'm NOT pregnant and i DON'T have kids. What can I do? Is there anything I CAN do?""

Car insurance increase...?

My regular insurance (just liability) is $70 a month. but I just bought a 2001 audi s4 and am adding collision to it. i guess you could say its a sports car because its fast, but its still a sedan. any idea on how much my insurance will go up?""

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I Asked My Mom Why She Didn’t Vaccinate Me

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I Asked My Mom Why She Didn’t Vaccinate Me

Her answer shows the power of a trusted doctor. “I was totally pro-vaccines, really, until Dr. Taylor.”

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Virginia Hughes

People are always shocked to learn that I wasn’t vaccinated as a baby. I’m a science journalist, after all, and studied neuroscience in college. I believe in science, and science is unequivocal about whether babies should be vaccinated: They should be.

But my parents weren’t so enamored with mainstream scientific authorities. We lived in a small town in rural Michigan, where my mom had also grown up and where everybody knew everybody else’s business. We nominally had a family doctor — Dr. Burris, an osteopathic physician — but I don’t remember ever going to see him as a kid, or ever being sick at all. (Once when I was 5 or 6, according to my mom, I came down with a bad cold, and my nanny threatened to quit if my parents didn’t take me to a doctor. So I went, got antibiotics, and was fine.)

I didn’t realize that being unvaccinated was odd until grade school, when my parents had to sign a form saying they objected on religious grounds. When I was 16, I had to get a tuberculosis skin test in order to volunteer at a nursing home, and at 17, I had to get a series of shots so that my college would let me live in the dorms. Otherwise, though, it rarely came up.

I haven’t thought much about my vaccination history until this week, while covering the measles outbreak for BuzzFeed News. I realized that I’d never actually asked my parents why they didn’t vaccinate me or my younger sister.

I knew it wasn’t because of the (now thoroughly debunked) link between autism and vaccines; that research didn’t make headlines until 1998, and I was born in 1984. I figured my parents’ choice boiled down to their politics, which were of the conservative/libertarian/small-government variety. They were those people who refused to give Social Security numbers to anybody, for any reason. With a handful of like-minded friends, they created a group, called “Citizens for Improved Government,” and published a newsletter taking aim at what they saw as an overreaching city government and school board.

It was fitting, I thought, that they refused state-mandated vaccinations, the most pervasive and successful public health strategy of all time. But I didn’t know for sure. So I emailed my mom to request an on-the-record interview, and she readily agreed. After some small talk, we got around to the Disneyland outbreak.

“They’re trying to connect it to the conservatives — it’s the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever seen,” she said over the phone. “It’s the vegetarian people and the ultimate hippies who started the movement, and they’re all liberals! It’s not a political thing anyway; it’s ridiculous.”

I told her about my assumption — that her stance on vaccines came out of libertarian values. Was that true?

No, she said, that wasn’t it at all. “I was totally pro-vaccines, really, until Dr. Taylor.”

Dr. Taylor was my parents’ dentist. He was part of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, which was somewhat unusual in our town. “They look at things differently,” mom said. “They’re vegetarians.” My parents were decidedly not, but they respected this guy because he was well-educated.

A month after I was born, my parents took me to meet Dr. Taylor. He gave them a brand-new book, called How to Raise a Healthy Child in Spite of Your Doctor, written by a medical doctor named Robert S. Mendelsohn. The book seems to be a favorite among the alternative-medicine crowd, and Mendelsohn, a self-described “medical heretic,” was apparently against heart surgery, water fluoridation, and “modern medicine.”

That book changed everything, mom said. “There were a couple of chapters on immunizations, and that was what we zeroed in on.”

Listening to her rattle off the book’s specific claims about vaccines, I was surprised at how much time and consideration she had put into thinking through the data — or at least the data she knew about. Dr. Burris, an osteopathic physician who “was not into meds,” my mom said, was also sympathetic to Mendelsohn and Taylor’s ideas. In other words, all of the experts my parents knew and trusted were steering them against vaccines.

But they didn’t just make a blanket decision about all vaccinations. When considering the MMR vaccine — a combination jab for protection against measles, mumps, and rubella — mom and dad analyzed the risk-benefit ratio of each disease, one at a time.

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Measles was an easy no for them, my mom said. “We all had the measles, before they had the shots. It went through the whole community, and it didn’t hurt anybody.” She remembered having the characteristic red rash, and missing a week of school while holed up in her room with the shades drawn. And yet, she said, “I’m sure there’s something good about them — they helped me build some immunities or something.”

This idea of measles as a mild disease is demonstrably inaccurate. The virus isn’t likely to kill, but it makes kids miserable. And it can lead to terrible complications: 8% of cases get diarrhea, 7% an ear infection, and 6% pneumonia. About 1 in 167 will get seizures, and 1 in 1,000 swelling of the brain.

Mumps, mom continued, was also an easy choice, because the virus was only really a problem for boys. This is not really true. Mumps is a somewhat benign virus; about half of all people who get the mumps won’t develop any symptoms. But the other half will get a fever, headache, exhaustion, and swollen glands. Adolescent boys, as mom noted, may develop inflamed testicles. In rare cases girls, too, can develop inflammation in their breasts and ovaries.

But even she acknowledged that rubella was much more serious. She knew that if a pregnant woman contracted this virus, there was a very high risk of her baby having birth defects. The reason she didn’t vaccinate me against rubella as an infant, she said, was so that I would be more likely to get a shot later. “Otherwise, the kid assumes they’ve got a lifelong immunity, and she doesn’t necessarily get a booster during her childbearing years, when she needs it the most.” To me, that sounds like twisted logic, but it was her logic.

The DPT vaccine — for diphtheria, pertussis, and tetanus — was more complicated. Diphtheria, a bacterial infection that affects the respiratory tract, has long been eradicated in the United States. “Diphtheria is pretty much unheard of anymore, so we figured we didn’t need that,” she said.

Pertussis, or whooping cough, is a bacterial infection that can be deadly for young babies, mom acknowledged. (In 2012, in fact, a pertussis outbreak killed 20 people, and most were infants younger than 3 months.) But the pertussis vaccine, according to her new book, was perhaps equally dangerous. “I think I read that it caused mental retardation within two hours,” she told me. (This is not true.)

Tetanus, though, my parents were absolutely worried about — they had seen for themselves the lockjaw it causes. And so, mom said, they went to Dr. Burris with their decision: They wanted me to get just one vaccine — one specifically for tetanus, instead of the DPT combo — and none of the others.

Dr. Burris had to special-order the tetanus-only vaccine, which led to my parents receiving a call from a public health nurse. “They thought we were poor and we couldn’t afford the shots,” mom said. Eventually the shot came, and my mom took me to the doctor’s office. By then I was about 5 months old. “I had to look away when you even got that tetanus. I felt like leaving the room with the doctor there, poking you with that needle.”

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I asked her whether she had read my post about the harms of measles. She hadn’t, so I summed it up. Why, I asked, wouldn’t you want to avoid putting your kid through all that pain? “We figured everybody else was immunized, and so there’s no way you would catch it from anybody.”

And that, of course, is the crux of the problem. When herd immunity is high, there isn’t a pressing reason for any given individual to be vaccinated. At the time, she thought vaccines came with scary side effects. So why would she risk it, no matter how small that risk? But that creates a dangerous paradox: If everyone made the choice she did, then everyone would get very, very sick.

My mom knows that I don’t agree with her about the dangers of vaccines. And, after reading some of my articles and others over the years, she seems to be less worried about vaccines than she used to be. Still, she doesn’t regret her choice.

“That book, talking about what was happening to those babies after a pertussis vaccination, it was just…” she paused. “Maybe it’s all a fable, I don’t know, you know how this stuff gets started.

“But when you have a baby you feel differently than before you have children. You are responsible — this is your baby! You look at things differently than you would as a concerned scientist.”

The conversation was revelatory for me, for two reasons. First, it made me wonder whether vilifying anti-vaccine parents — as the press has done repeatedly this week — is a good strategy for increasing vaccine coverage. When parents make medical choices, good or bad, it’s for one simple reason: They’re trying to do the right thing for their kid. Refusing vaccination is not a political statement.

Second, my mom’s story illustrates that data and authority and expertise can have real power, but only when communicated effectively. For whatever reason, the ideas of Dr. Burris, Dr. Taylor, and Dr. Mendelsohn resonated with my parents in a way that mainstream medical voices did not. Why? This is the question I wish more doctors would ask — and more journalists too. If we did, then maybe we’d better understand how fables about modern medicine are written. And, perhaps, how to erase them.

Read more: http://www.buzzfeed.com/virginiahughes/why-my-mom-didnt-vaccinate

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23 Things You Didn't Know Your Dishwasher Could Do—and 2 'Hacks' You Should Never Try

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In 1988, one year before Cops began asking the bad boys of America “What’cha gonna do when they come for you?,” noted victims’ advocate John Walsh was turning every American with access to Fox into a potential crime-solver on America’s Most Wanted.

The series, which highlighted real-life cases of fugitives and suspected criminals who had managed to evade capture (or recapture), became the first hit show for the then-fledgling Fox network and turned into a cultural phenomenon. To celebrate its 30th anniversary, here are 20 things you might not have known about America’s Most Wanted.

1. IT WAS INSPIRED BY A LONG-RUNNING BBC TRUE CRIME SERIES.

America’s Most Wanted partly owes its existence to an assistant to Fox owner Rupert Murdoch, who suggested the idea of a true crime series along the lines of BBC’s Crimewatch, which featured reenactments of brutal crimes and hosts who implored the public to assist them with catching the criminals. The show began airing once a month on BBC One in 1984, and was cancelled in 2017.

2. JOHN WALSH WASN’T THE FIRST CHOICE TO HOST IT.

Though it’s hard to imagine America’s Most Wanted without its longtime host John Walsh—a hotel executive who became a noted victims’ advocate following the abduction and murder of his young son, Adam, in 1981—the show’s producers considered a lot of other names before landing on Walsh.

“Stephen Chao—Fox’s vice president of program development—and an L.A. producer named Michael Linder sat down with [Fox’s vice president of corporate and legal affairs] Tom Herwitz to discuss the possibilities,” Walsh wrote in his autobiography, Tears of Rage, about the network’s search for a host. “They considered the author Joseph Wambaugh, and a whole raft of actors—Treat Williams, Ed Marinaro, Brian Dennehy, Brian Keith, and Theresa Saldana, who had played herself in a TV movie about how she was nearly stabbed to death by some psychotic attacker. Then, during one of their marathon conference calls, Herwitz suggested me.”

It took a while for them to track Walsh down—“I was all over the place in those days, traveling something like half a million air miles a year,” he wrote—but after a handful of conversations, he agreed to shoot the pilot.

3. IT WAS FOX’S FIRST HIT SERIES.

Fox was still a new network—less than two years old—when America’s Most Wanted debuted, and it quickly became the network’s first big hit. Though it originally only aired in a handful of markets, by April the network was broadcasting America’s Most Wanted nationwide. In 1989, it became the first Fox series to be the most-watched program in its time slot. By 2010, each episode was being watched by about 5 million households.

4. THE ANNOUNCER’S VOICE WAS A VERY FAMILIAR ONE.

From 1996 until his death in 2008, legendary voice actor Don LaFontaine served as the show’s narrator. You probably know LaFontaine as the voice behind more than 5000 movie trailers, and the person most often associated with the “In a world…” trope. He was often referred to as “Thunder Throat” and “The Voice of God.” Wes Johnson took over the role following LaFontaine’s passing.

5. THOUGH INITIALLY SKEPTICAL, LAW ENFORCEMENT PROFESSIONALS QUICKLY EMBRACED THE SHOW.

In a 1988 interview with The New York Times, executive producer Michael Linder admitted that law enforcement professionals were initially skeptical of the show, though it didn’t take them long to embrace its purpose—and possibilities. “Now, they bombard us with tips and requests for help,” Linder said.

The FBI also played a big part in the series; the agency assigned a handful of agents to act as liaisons between William S. Sessions, the bureau’s then-director, and the show’s producers. On May 29, 1998, Sessions even appeared on an episode of the show to give a rundown of the latest additions to the FBI’s 10 Most Wanted list (one of whom was captured shortly thereafter, thanks to a viewer tip).

Manhattan District Attorney Robert M. Morgenthau told The New York Times that he, too, was a fan of the series, saying that, “If the media, through publicity, can contribute to the apprehension of dangerous criminals, I’m all for it. Besides, it’s very expensive to track down criminals. A couple of detectives or FBI agents can spend months or years searching for someone. It seems to me that this is a wonderful way to save the taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars.”

6. THE AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION WAS NOT ON BOARD WITH THE CONCEPT.

Though many of the individuals featured on the show were fugitives, the American Civil Liberties Union had concerns that a suspect who appeared on the show would not be able to get a fair trial. “I suppose it’s like an electronic wanted poster,” Colleen O’Connor, the ACLU’s director of public education, told The New York Times in 1988. “The poster on the wall in the post office makes it seem like the fugitive is guilty, too … Can someone get a fair trial after he’s been portrayed as a killer on television?”

But Linder contested this point, telling the Times that civil liberties were always at the forefront of the producers’ mind. “If one killer was set free because of pretrial publicity from us, the show would be a failure,” he said. The show also made a very clear point of using language like “alleged” and “reportedly” when discussing suspects who had not been convicted—and Walsh ended each episode with a reminder that the suspects featured in the show were innocent until proven guilty.

7. WITHIN FOUR DAYS OF THE SHOW’S PREMIERE, THEY HAD CAUGHT THEIR FIRST SUSPECT.

On February 7, 1988, America’s Most Wanted debuted on just a handful of Fox stations across the country. On February 11, four days later, a viewer tip led to the arrest of David James Roberts, a convicted murderer and rapist who had made a brazen escape from prison in 1986 while being transported to a hospital.

After the episode aired, the show’s tip line received dozens of calls from people who knew Roberts as Bob Lord, an employee at a homeless shelter in Staten Island. Roberts, who was on the FBI’s 10 Most Wanted list, was the first fugitive profiled on the show, and the first person caught as a result of viewer tips.

8. THE SHOW HELPED THE FBI CATCH 17 OF THEIR “MOST WANTED” FUGITIVES.

America’s Most Wanted proved to be a huge help to the FBI during the quarter-century it was on the air. According to the FBI’s website, 17 “‘Ten Most Wanted Fugitives’ have been located as a direct result of tips provided by viewers of this program” (beginning with Roberts in that very first episode).

9. WALSH MAINTAINED HIS OWN “MOST WANTED” LIST.

Like the FBI, Walsh maintained his own “most wanted” list, which was known as the America’s Most Wanted “Dirty Dozen.” It changed regularly, but included fugitives who had been featured on the show and had yet to be captured.

10. THE HOTLINE NUMBER CHANGED SEVERAL TIMES. 

In order to expedite the crime-solving process, the last two digits of the show’s hotline changed each year for the first few years in order to match the year the episode aired (1-800-CRIME-88, 1-800-CRIME-89, etc.). On average, the show received approximately 3000 to 5000 calls per week. In 1994, the number changed one last time—to 1-800-CRIME-TV. The number was shut down in June 2014. (As for the operators you saw during each episode: most of them were actors.)

Amazingly, crank calls weren’t a big problem for the show, according to Linder, though they did receive a lot of hang-up calls. (He suspected people just wanted to try dialing the number to see if someone would answer.)

11. LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS INVOLVED WITH THE CASES FEATURED WERE ON HAND IN THE CALL CENTER.

So that any promising tips could be quickly vetted and followed up on once an episode aired, The New York Times reported that, “In the television studio, there are some 30 telephone operators to take the calls. Also on hand are police officers or federal agents directly involved in cases being aired that night. When one of the operators gets a good lead, an officer picks up the phone and asks the caller further questions.”

12. A GROUP OF PRISONERS ONCE TURNED IN A FELLOW INMATE.

On May 15, 1988, Mark Goodman was in the final stretch of a brief prison stint following a burglary conviction in Palm Beach County, Florida, but was wanted elsewhere in the country for escaping federal custody following an armed robbery conviction. He was watching the show with a group of his fellow inmates when his face flashed across the screen. Though The New York Times reported that he tried to change the channel, it was too late: Goodman’s fellow inmates informed the prison guards that there was an America’s Most Wanted fugitive in their midst. While being transferred to a more secure facility, Goodman managed to escape custody again. Fortunately, he was apprehended the next day.

13. FOX CANCELLED THE SERIES IN 1996. VIEWERS—AND THE AUTHORITIES—WEREN’T HAPPY.

In 1996, the powers-that-be at Fox—which now had a handful of hit series, including The Simpsons—decided to cancel America’s Most Wanted and push Married… With Children (which was in its final season) into the first half of its 9 p.m. time slot. The public let their outrage be known.

“We went off for four weeks,” Walsh told Larry King in 2003. “Everybody in law enforcement contacted Fox. Fifty-five members of Congress contacted Fox. Thirty-seven governors. I don’t think 37 governors could agree on how many stars and stripes are on the flag, but they all went after [the network]—and they said it [was] a business decision. But … 200,000 good American citizens wrote Fox and said, ‘This is wrong.’ We were the shortest canceled show in the history of television.”

14. THE SHOW ALMOST HELPED APPREHEND GIANNI VERSACE’S KILLER FOUR DAYS BEFORE HIS MURDER.

Fans of FX’s The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story probably noticed a recent shout-out to America’s Most Wanted. In the episode, an employee at a sandwich shop in Miami recognizes Andrew Cunanan when he comes in to buy a sub and calls the police to report it. But Cunanan managed to make his way out of the eatery just before the police arrived. While the episode left no doubt that it was indeed Cunanan (as portrayed by Darren Criss) who was ordering a tuna fish sandwich, the reality of what happened is not as clear-cut.

After Cunanan made his way onto the FBI’s Most Wanted Fugitives list on June 12, 1997, the bureau asked the show for help. They ran a segment on the alleged serial killer, and Miami police did respond to a call from Kenny Benjamin, an employee of Miami Subs, who swore that Cunanan was in the shop. Police arrived almost immediately, but the man in question had already left. And Benjamin had ended up blocking the security camera’s view of the suspect while making the call, so whether or not it was indeed Cunanan was never confirmed. But we do know that the call was made four days before Versace’s murder.

15. AT THE REQUEST OF THE WHITE HOUSE, THE SHOW TOOK ON TERRORISTS FOLLOWING 9/11.

In October 2001, in the wake of 9/11, America’s Most Wanted aired a one-hour special that profiled the FBI’s 22 most wanted terrorists. The New York Post reported that the episode was put together in just 72 hours at the request of White House aide Scott Sforza.

“These are low-life coward terrorists that we’re going to profile and hopefully we can get some of these s–bags off the streets before they hurt anymore Americans,” Walsh said, adding that: “I’m going to send a big message to Bin Laden: You’re just a coward. Americans know it and we’re gonna hunt you down like the dog you are.”

16. MORE THAN ONE SUSPECT PROFILED ON THE SHOW WAS LATER ACQUITTED.

Not every suspect featured on America’s Most Wanted ended up being captured—or found guilty of their alleged crimes. One example: Suspected murderer Richard Emile Newman. Acting on tips that he was living in an apartment in Brooklyn following an episode of America’s Most Wanted that profiled his case, Newman was arrested in New York in 2004. He was extradited back to Canada in 2006 for trial, but in 2010 he was acquitted of those charges.

17. AT LEAST ONE SUSPECT TURNED HIMSELF IN.

On May 8, 1988, America’s Most Wanted featured the case of Stephen Randall Dye, who was wanted in connection with the shooting of a man in New Jersey in 1986 as well as the murder of a motorcyclist in Ohio in 1981. Nervous that he would be found out, Dye—who was living in California at the time—flagged down a police car in San Diego and gave himself up.

18. BARACK OBAMA MADE A SPECIAL APPEARANCE.

In 2010, to celebrate the show’s 1000th episode, Walsh was granted what he assumed would be a quick meet-and-greet with President Barack Obama to film a segment acknowledging the milestone. But when he arrived at the White House, he was taken to the Blue Room for an actual sit-down with the POTUS where they discussed Obama’s various anti-crime initiatives and the show’s impact. “It wasn’t a grip-and-grin or a photo op,” Walsh told the New York Post.

19. IT WAS THE LONGEST-RUNNING SERIES IN FOX’S HISTORY AT THE TIME IT WENT OFF THE AIR.

In June 2011, Fox television cancelled America’s Most Wanted for a second (and final) time. When the show went off the air, it had run for 25 seasons, making it the network’s then-longest running series. (The Simpsons has since surpassed it.) 

But that was not the end of America’s Most Wanted. As Walsh told the San Diego Tribune in the wake of the series’s cancellation, “I’m fighting hard to keep this franchise going. It’s a television show that gets ratings and saves lives, and we’ll find somewhere to keep going. We’re not done.”

Walsh was right: The series got picked up by Lifetime, though its run on the network was fairly short-lived; on March 28, 2013, it was cancelled for good.

20. MORE THAN 1000 FUGITIVES HAVE BEEN CAPTURED BECAUSE OF THE SERIES.

In May 2008, America’s Most Wanted was celebrating the show’s 1000th capture. To celebrate, the network got some of the Fox family to tape celebratory messages (including some awkward congrats from American Idol judges Simon Cowell, Randy Jackson, and Paula Abdul). As of March 30, 2013, the total number of captured persons had risen to 1202.

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I Asked My Mom Why She Didn’t Vaccinate Me

Her answer shows the power of a trusted doctor. “I was totally pro-vaccines, really, until Dr. Taylor.”

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Virginia Hughes

People are always shocked to learn that I wasn’t vaccinated as a baby. I’m a science journalist, after all, and studied neuroscience in college. I believe in science, and science is unequivocal about whether babies should be vaccinated: They should be.

But my parents weren’t so enamored with mainstream scientific authorities. We lived in a small town in rural Michigan, where my mom had also grown up and where everybody knew everybody else’s business. We nominally had a family doctor — Dr. Burris, an osteopathic physician — but I don’t remember ever going to see him as a kid, or ever being sick at all. (Once when I was 5 or 6, according to my mom, I came down with a bad cold, and my nanny threatened to quit if my parents didn’t take me to a doctor. So I went, got antibiotics, and was fine.)

I didn’t realize that being unvaccinated was odd until grade school, when my parents had to sign a form saying they objected on religious grounds. When I was 16, I had to get a tuberculosis skin test in order to volunteer at a nursing home, and at 17, I had to get a series of shots so that my college would let me live in the dorms. Otherwise, though, it rarely came up.

I haven’t thought much about my vaccination history until this week, while covering the measles outbreak for BuzzFeed News. I realized that I’d never actually asked my parents why they didn’t vaccinate me or my younger sister.

I knew it wasn’t because of the (now thoroughly debunked) link between autism and vaccines; that research didn’t make headlines until 1998, and I was born in 1984. I figured my parents’ choice boiled down to their politics, which were of the conservative/libertarian/small-government variety. They were those people who refused to give Social Security numbers to anybody, for any reason. With a handful of like-minded friends, they created a group, called “Citizens for Improved Government,” and published a newsletter taking aim at what they saw as an overreaching city government and school board.

It was fitting, I thought, that they refused state-mandated vaccinations, the most pervasive and successful public health strategy of all time. But I didn’t know for sure. So I emailed my mom to request an on-the-record interview, and she readily agreed. After some small talk, we got around to the Disneyland outbreak.

“They’re trying to connect it to the conservatives — it’s the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever seen,” she said over the phone. “It’s the vegetarian people and the ultimate hippies who started the movement, and they’re all liberals! It’s not a political thing anyway; it’s ridiculous.”

I told her about my assumption — that her stance on vaccines came out of libertarian values. Was that true?

No, she said, that wasn’t it at all. “I was totally pro-vaccines, really, until Dr. Taylor.”

Dr. Taylor was my parents’ dentist. He was part of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, which was somewhat unusual in our town. “They look at things differently,” mom said. “They’re vegetarians.” My parents were decidedly not, but they respected this guy because he was well-educated.

A month after I was born, my parents took me to meet Dr. Taylor. He gave them a brand-new book, called How to Raise a Healthy Child in Spite of Your Doctor, written by a medical doctor named Robert S. Mendelsohn. The book seems to be a favorite among the alternative-medicine crowd, and Mendelsohn, a self-described “medical heretic,” was apparently against heart surgery, water fluoridation, and “modern medicine.”

That book changed everything, mom said. “There were a couple of chapters on immunizations, and that was what we zeroed in on.”

Listening to her rattle off the book’s specific claims about vaccines, I was surprised at how much time and consideration she had put into thinking through the data — or at least the data she knew about. Dr. Burris, an osteopathic physician who “was not into meds,” my mom said, was also sympathetic to Mendelsohn and Taylor’s ideas. In other words, all of the experts my parents knew and trusted were steering them against vaccines.

But they didn’t just make a blanket decision about all vaccinations. When considering the MMR vaccine — a combination jab for protection against measles, mumps, and rubella — mom and dad analyzed the risk-benefit ratio of each disease, one at a time.

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Measles was an easy no for them, my mom said. “We all had the measles, before they had the shots. It went through the whole community, and it didn’t hurt anybody.” She remembered having the characteristic red rash, and missing a week of school while holed up in her room with the shades drawn. And yet, she said, “I’m sure there’s something good about them — they helped me build some immunities or something.”

This idea of measles as a mild disease is demonstrably inaccurate. The virus isn’t likely to kill, but it makes kids miserable. And it can lead to terrible complications: 8% of cases get diarrhea, 7% an ear infection, and 6% pneumonia. About 1 in 167 will get seizures, and 1 in 1,000 swelling of the brain.

Mumps, mom continued, was also an easy choice, because the virus was only really a problem for boys. This is not really true. Mumps is a somewhat benign virus; about half of all people who get the mumps won’t develop any symptoms. But the other half will get a fever, headache, exhaustion, and swollen glands. Adolescent boys, as mom noted, may develop inflamed testicles. In rare cases girls, too, can develop inflammation in their breasts and ovaries.

But even she acknowledged that rubella was much more serious. She knew that if a pregnant woman contracted this virus, there was a very high risk of her baby having birth defects. The reason she didn’t vaccinate me against rubella as an infant, she said, was so that I would be more likely to get a shot later. “Otherwise, the kid assumes they’ve got a lifelong immunity, and she doesn’t necessarily get a booster during her childbearing years, when she needs it the most.” To me, that sounds like twisted logic, but it was her logic.

The DPT vaccine — for diphtheria, pertussis, and tetanus — was more complicated. Diphtheria, a bacterial infection that affects the respiratory tract, has long been eradicated in the United States. “Diphtheria is pretty much unheard of anymore, so we figured we didn’t need that,” she said.

Pertussis, or whooping cough, is a bacterial infection that can be deadly for young babies, mom acknowledged. (In 2012, in fact, a pertussis outbreak killed 20 people, and most were infants younger than 3 months.) But the pertussis vaccine, according to her new book, was perhaps equally dangerous. “I think I read that it caused mental retardation within two hours,” she told me. (This is not true.)

Tetanus, though, my parents were absolutely worried about — they had seen for themselves the lockjaw it causes. And so, mom said, they went to Dr. Burris with their decision: They wanted me to get just one vaccine — one specifically for tetanus, instead of the DPT combo — and none of the others.

Dr. Burris had to special-order the tetanus-only vaccine, which led to my parents receiving a call from a public health nurse. “They thought we were poor and we couldn’t afford the shots,” mom said. Eventually the shot came, and my mom took me to the doctor’s office. By then I was about 5 months old. “I had to look away when you even got that tetanus. I felt like leaving the room with the doctor there, poking you with that needle.”

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I asked her whether she had read my post about the harms of measles. She hadn’t, so I summed it up. Why, I asked, wouldn’t you want to avoid putting your kid through all that pain? “We figured everybody else was immunized, and so there’s no way you would catch it from anybody.”

And that, of course, is the crux of the problem. When herd immunity is high, there isn’t a pressing reason for any given individual to be vaccinated. At the time, she thought vaccines came with scary side effects. So why would she risk it, no matter how small that risk? But that creates a dangerous paradox: If everyone made the choice she did, then everyone would get very, very sick.

My mom knows that I don’t agree with her about the dangers of vaccines. And, after reading some of my articles and others over the years, she seems to be less worried about vaccines than she used to be. Still, she doesn’t regret her choice.

“That book, talking about what was happening to those babies after a pertussis vaccination, it was just…” she paused. “Maybe it’s all a fable, I don’t know, you know how this stuff gets started.

“But when you have a baby you feel differently than before you have children. You are responsible — this is your baby! You look at things differently than you would as a concerned scientist.”

The conversation was revelatory for me, for two reasons. First, it made me wonder whether vilifying anti-vaccine parents — as the press has done repeatedly this week — is a good strategy for increasing vaccine coverage. When parents make medical choices, good or bad, it’s for one simple reason: They’re trying to do the right thing for their kid. Refusing vaccination is not a political statement.

Second, my mom’s story illustrates that data and authority and expertise can have real power, but only when communicated effectively. For whatever reason, the ideas of Dr. Burris, Dr. Taylor, and Dr. Mendelsohn resonated with my parents in a way that mainstream medical voices did not. Why? This is the question I wish more doctors would ask — and more journalists too. If we did, then maybe we’d better understand how fables about modern medicine are written. And, perhaps, how to erase them.

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