They call it a microwave tower. What it does, I have no idea. It was standing here when I was a small child. I remember my father and I driving past this tower as a child and me thinking "that must be the tallest thing it the world". "What is that dad?" "A microwave tower". What is a microwave tower?" Serious thought by dad….."I don't know"! Nearly 60 years later I still don't know what it does, but what I do know is that it won't be there much longer. It has to come down because of the new airport. At the top of the tower there is a flashing red light, blink, blink, blink. On and off, on and off. In the course of my life it has blinked millions and millions of times. During the blizzards in the 70's when school was out for something like six weeks, and hardly anyone could get anywhere, factories closed, the whole county was paralyzed ,it never missed a blink. During winds and floods, blizzards and heat waves, you guessed it, blink, blink, blink. It just stands there year after year and does whatever it does and blinks. As I understand nobody seems to know where it will go. It is kind of similar to many other things in life. No one seems to know why they do what they do or why they are necessary, but they just keep on keeping on! When I come home from work I see this tower every evening, blink, blink, blink. I step out on my deck at night in the cold dark winter and look west through the trees,..blink, blink, blink. I stand outside my office and look west, and you guessed it, miles away towering above the landscape I see it... blink, blink, blink. It always there. It remind of some very popular words about "I am here and ……I am the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow"!