The best license plate on the road

Standing in line yesterday to renew my car registration (or "renew the tags" as I've always heard growing up) I spotted this gem of a license plate casually displayed with 30-or-so other specialty plates available for purchase.

I then decided that this is HANDS DOWN, *THE* MOST AMAZING LICENSE PLATE IN THE ENTIRE UNITED STATES.

After further research, The Wall Street Journal wrote a story in 2001 [note to self- why did it take you 8 years to find out about such a cool tag?!] about license plates across the US and briefly mentioned the "nuked veteran" tag:

"Alabama offers what has to be the single most bizarre plate on the road today, a tag that reads "Atomic Nuked Veteran." Those who would like to advertise this particular fact of their personal history must get a letter of verification from the Defense Nuclear Agency proving that they "were exposed to dangerous levels of radiation due to atomic bomb and weapons tested from 1946 to 1962."

Of note: Even though I think you should never, ever be given a traffic ticket if you are one of the few surviving people in this world with this plate, apparently you still have to follow all the rules. On top of that, you also have to pay a "...commemorative tag annual fee of $3.00 plus the normal tag and issuance fee and ad valorem taxes."

Couldn't someone have gotten that waived for these guys?!!?......