Houston Veal’s career
Posted on December 26, 2007
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From Lee Veal, Houston’s son:
He worked in the early mid to late fifties in or near Coffeyville, Kansas. I forget for what company, but it was like a defense contractor. He also worked in Abilene, Tx for a while, too. That was after he’d been laid-off from General Dynamics in Ft. Worth in the early 60s. He worked as an electrician for Brown and Root. (The B&R company is now part of the infamous Halliburton/KBR (KBR’s full name used to be Kellogg Brown and Root), which trying to cover up the reported rape of a Houston, Texas woman who was employed by KBR in Iraq.) In Abilene he worked on the construction as defense missile silos. There were a dozen or so silos around Abilene. Each had an intercontinental ballistic missile in it. They were aimed, I was told, at various ‘targets’ in the Soviet Union.
Also, HLLV worked for Thiokol Chemical Company in Brigham City, Utah. He was an electrician there, too. He often worked as an electrician for these defense contractors, which was a good trick consider that he was red/green color blind. That is he could not tell the difference between those two colors. They looked the same to him. In towns where the traffic light were inverted with green on top and red on the bottom, he was known to run the light because he could not tell red from green. In a profession where you have dozens of wires which are color-coded (many with red and green hues) and must be connected correctly in order for something to work, well, like I said it was good trick.
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