10 years old in Ft. Lauderdale, FL, lived about a mile as the crow flies from Port Everglades which was full of troop carriers with LST's hanging off the sides and various support ships. Jeeps with mounted machine guns were blocking every road in.
Nuclear war, total annihilation, parents intently watching Walter Cronkite and Huntley/Brinkley, who cares...? My friend John and I would ride our bikes by there on the 17th St. Causeway to look at all the warships and guns and stuff. We thought it was the coolest thing we'd ever seen.
