I need to go to my mom's place to dig through ol photo albums but in 1990 a friend of my father's was part of a foundation that brought kids from the Ukraine to the US for summer camps and to get health care too. I would've been 5 so the significance of all this was lost on me but the Aeroflot airliner that was supposed to bring them here fell through and a Soviet military transport plane brought them to Pease AFB here in NH which was then an SAC base flying 24/7 bomber flights. That weekend Air Force One was there as Pres. Bush was up in Maine. Somewhere my parents have articles showing AF1 and the Soviet jet together and speculate the optics of that had a lot to do with the SAC flights ended that fall. Somewhere there's a pic of me in front of that Soviet jet.

First thing the foundation did with a plane load of kids from the USSR? Took them to McDonald's. haha