ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Dick Farr, born in Hartford, Dick Farr has had a varied career from a USAF SAC Combat Crewman during the Cuban Missile Crisis to an Engineering manager in Saudi Arabia during the Gulf War(s) "When I saw the SCUD Missile just clear my apartment block, and slam into the parking lot a supermarket one street away," he said "I knew this was going to be serious." In between bouts of being in the very wrong places at the very worst times, Dick has managed to marry his English sweetheart, and live sort of peacefully in the Midlands.