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Any oldtimers remember that? October 16-28 1962.

Yep.We practiced drills at school.We would all go to the hall,sit down and put our hands over our heads to protect us.I look back now and that was so all the bodies could be recovered in one big pile.Bomb shelters were the thing after that.

I spent a couple or three days sitting on my packed sea bag at 29 Palms in that little dust up.

Yes, indeed. When I had the time it was watch the news. Pretty scary time and when more facts came out later it wasn't far from a nuclear war.

I grew up in Ft. Lauderdale, FL about one mile as the crow flies from Port Everglades and was 10 years old at the time. Port Everglades was a staging area for possible invasion and the place was jam packed with warships and troopships with WWII style LCVP's hanging off the sides. The normal entrances from the streets were blocked by jeeps with M-60's mounted in the back.

My friend John and I would ride our bikes down there every day after school to look at all that. We thought it was the coolest thing we had ever seen. The fact that we were riding around a very likely ground zero never entered our minds.

I remember it well. One of my classmates (6th grade) was celebrating the fact (erroneously) that if we went to war, we wouldn't have to go to school. As in all things history, I am sure that there are aspects of the whole event that we have not been told about or have given a red herring version of.

I was just out of high school, I was more concerned about having a good time that evening.

Youth is wasted on the young.

Also, we never did have a "hide under your desk, bend over, stick your head between your legs, and kiss your ass good-by" drill at any time. Apparently we had not yet evolved to the point where we are today where it is necessary to scare kids to death about everything that might happen.

I was in the 4th grade in a one room country school in west central Kansas. There was 15 or so in the entire school. I remember being very frightened of the situation. And we did the crawl under your desk drills.

I was too young for the cuban mc

But I remember us kids having to open all the windows up for tornado drill then run to hallways and squat,tuck our heads up under our asses


WTF

I remember the adults being very tense for several days during that time. My youngest sister had just been born. I figured the adults would handle everything and I went about my daily life as a seven-year old would. OTOH, I grew up keenly aware of the fact that we had just had a huge war and I was also very aware of Nikita Khrushchev's regularly televised promises to bury me from the time I was about three years old. Khrushchev scared the livin crap outa me.

Yeah....I was in Europe on FULL ALERT!!

I was 9 and can remember only remember being scared, no details. I don't recall doing any hide-under-the-desk drills, the school administration probably thought they were pointless. There was an ICBM site about 4 miles from the school, another 3 miles from my house and a big SAC base about 20 miles away, high priority targets all of them I'm sure.

When I was 9 yrs old, I saw the 1959 movie called On the Beach, which depicted the extermination of the entire human race in a nuclear holocaust. I remember seeing the news films that year of the Castro boys and Che Guevara running their non-stop firing squads (yes, they showed those on television back then) When the CMC happened several years later, this really scared the **** out of me, having seen that movie several years back. Also the fact that we were very aware we lived only 50 miles away from the only government installation that built our nuclear bombs. And that facility would be extensively targeted if a nuclear exchange ever occurred. So, yes I remember the crisis very well. These were not happy memories of a 12 year old kid who went to bed afraid. What was really sobering years later when "detente" emerged, was the conversation between an American general and a Soviet general. The Soviet general said the tactical missile installations in Cuba were under the control of the on scene commanders and not the Kremlin. He also said Castro and Che kept begging the commander to launch them against the Unite States. This was the same psycho bunch the likes of Hollywood, Jesse Jackson, Obama and others of their ilk, hold in great reverence, even though Castro and Guevara were avowed racists because of their hatred for blacks. So, as stated above, I remember the CMC like it was yesterday.

And this guy is the reason the conflict didn’t esculate. He looked in the containers per Kennedy’s orders.

Roy Bohm, “First SEAL”

Not to wear the proverbial tinfoil hat, but I always wondered why Cuba got a pass all these years, especially considering its only 90 miles give or take from the U.S. The thought occurred that the Cubans might have decided to keep a few nukes when Russia capitulated and agreed to pull them out. How would the Russkies stop them? And to save face they couldn't very well complain......Sent thousands of men to "Nam, but dicked around with Cuba. Hmmmmmmm.

I was in a NORAD combat center, very tense

I remember it. Yup!

We practiced hiding under our desks.

I was 11 years old. Sixth grade at Le Pera Elementary School in Poston, Arizona Camp Three. Poston is where Japanese were interred during WW2. There war three camps. Just remember people talking about it. Didn't mean much to me.