In 1972, a small aircraft went missing in Alaska’s skyline. While it was something of a story back in the early seventies, the disappearance of the charter plane didn’t reverberate across the world, nor did it register as more than inconsequential to the other matters of the world at the time – which was filled with free love, political and social unrest, and a stretching that America felt as it broke from the cocoon of the fifties and sixties “bebop” and sock hop era. Amongst even more noteworthy news items in the hearts and minds of people were the atrocious murders dealt by terrorists during the seventies Olympics in Munich. Concern and awareness were heightened taut like a wire wound on both ends of two stretched hands, and the tension would later lead to boycotts by the United States This would radically change the way security for athletes and games were managed but also provided something deeper. The psychology of America shifted from safe to tenuous at best. It was the Cold War but at home. The political climate would endure decades of damage from the collapse that would happen during this time. The biggest and brightest political minds would be seen as hopeful drunks falling along an uneven sidewalk. Beyond that jumble of mind-filling, attention-grabbing morose, a different aircraft would grab the big headlines. Twenty-two survivors of a soccer team would crash in the snowy Alps and resort to cannibalism to save themselves and their other living teammates. ….Read more when you purchase the book Not Afraid of the Dark by Darrell W. Reeves, Ed.D