MacBook Air needs system reinstall but has no CD slot

I have a MacBook Air, laptop. OS 10.6.8. I can't give you the processor speed, memory and storage capacity because my computer won't restart. I get as far as the Apple and the gear spinning and nothing else happens. I then tried to restart in Safe Mode, but it does the same thing. I tried different options, just "Option," just "Option-Command R", just "Shift R" -- the various ways that I found in the Apple forum to get to Safe Mode. But I just get the Apple with the spinning gear.
I did get to the HARDDRIVE symbol when I just used the "Option" to restart the computer. But there were no other options -- just the image of the HD sitting there. I clicked on it but it just went to Apple and the spinning gear.
I read if I could reinstall the system, it would reinstall over any issues I may have, and at least leave all the data that exists on my computer; however, how would I reinstall the system if the MacBook Air has no CD slot?
I get these suggestions to use the disk utility or repair permissions, etc, but if one cannot even start their computer, there is no way to access anything on it to repair. I first have to be able to access the computer itself and/or reinstall the system.
Hope someone can help. Thanks

By using the MacBook Air's original thumbdrive.
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