SURVIVAL DEFENSE SAVVY - Prologue

By

"HAL WALTER"

July 30, 1919 - April 13, 2009

Rest In Peace, Harry

[Introduction by Miles Stair. Hal Walter is the dean of American survivalists. While others were talking preparations, Hal was making preparations a half-century ago! Even in 2008 he was still active in shelter work and design, still innovating and incorporating the latest EMP shielding for his generators and other electrical items, for example.  Hal is a veteran of the 10th Mountain Division of World War II fame.  I was a practical, practicing, prepared survivalist in the early 70's, and Hal Walter predates me by almost twenty years!]  Now read Hal Walter.

My own personal and family survival history began suddenly one day in May of 1955...10 years into the Atomic Age....when the news came of the tremendous power that had been released in a series of tests in the Pacific in the form of what they called the H-Bomb. At the same time came the critical information about the Russian H-Bomb and missile capabilities which were a direct threat to the United States. For me, this changed the somewhat theoretical dangers posed by the Hiroshima-type 20 kiloton weaponry into a frightening threat of total annihilation.

Without examining the many changes in our lives over the intervening 52 years in unnecessary detail there are several factors of importance that should be stressed in evaluating our survival program. Perhaps the major one being DEDICATION. Survival in the nuclear age is not an on-again, off-again scenario dependent on the whims of the moment, distractions involving a lessening of resolve, demands upon a limited money supply, or any number of rationalizations relating to your desire to stop facing reality.

FACT.....THE THREAT TO YOUR FAMILY FROM NUCLEAR DANGER WILL NOT GO AWAY!

My basic list of categories that need to be addressed in order to build a sound survival program numbers approximately 25. A few of the most important listed previously in this same series under the title of PREPAREDNESS EVALUATION are thoroughly covered in EndTimesReport by various authors...including my own series entitled SURVIVAL DEFENSE SAVVY....parts 1 thru 5 (links below).

A major deterrent for most survival-oriented families is ECONOMICS....or in plain words.... "We just cannot afford a survival program". Our own experience over the past 52 years....especially the last 37 years in our present location in an isolated location in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado has proven just the opposite....YOU CANNOT AFFORD TO NOT HAVE A LONG-TERM SURVIVAL PROGRAM IN EFFECT! If we were to replicate our present investment in property, food, water systems, and all of the other necessary survival preparations, it would cost a minimum of 5 to 6 times as much as we have currently invested. Many people have money invested in what, essentially, will be worthless pieces of paper The Morning After.

If you are sincerely concerned about the future of your family and wish to consult personally with me I would suggest contacting Miles Stair [miles@milesstair.com]. If he feels that a direct email contact would be in the interest of both parties he will contact me.

Hal Walter

 

Other articles by Hal Walter

• Shelter Savvy, Part 1,       

• Shelter Savvy, Part 2,   

• Shelter Savvy, Part 3,

• Shelter Savvy, Part 4,

• Shelter Savvy, Part 5,

 

• Preparedness Evaluation,   

 

• SURVIVAL DEFENSE SAVVY I         

• SURVIVAL DEFENSE SAVVY II       

 

• SURVIVAL DEFENSE SAVVY III 

• SURVIVAL DEFENSE SAVVY IV

• SURVIVAL DEFENSE SAVVY V