I was just into the seventh grade and kinda got the vibes from my parents and the news that it was intense but at that age I had other things to worry about.
A guy that used to work with me was a young Marine at the time on a troop ship ready to go. Said a priest said last rites for them.
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A good principle to guide me through life: “This is all I have come to expect, standard lackluster performance. Trust nothing, believe no one and realize it will only get worse…”
I was nine. I remember it well, we practiced bending over and kissing your ass goodbye in school.
We didn't bother with that. Too close to Site R (a hole in a mountain not too far from DC, Alternate Joint Communications Center and a key AUTODIN switching center among other things) which would have been scheduled for several megaton range warheads. I remember Dad living at Site R for several days. The tension on post was palpable, one of those things where even kids were on there best behavior.
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My opinion of it is,..both sides were playing an intense game of "chicken". But I think both sides were still a long way off from actually pushing the button.
For one thing, Castro and all of the Russian advisors in Cuba knew for a *fact* that the entire island would be wiped from the face of the earth during the first minutes of a nuclear exchange.
They weren't eager to commit suicide.
Once again a democrat f u c k e d this up and badly. Yeah the Russians took the missiles out, but we removed ours from Turkey AND immediately stopped supporting Cuban exile insurgencies all across the board. I know because there were a lot of small boats leaving out of our house in Coral Gables on their way to Cuba and not only was that stopped, but the anti-communist freedom fighters were jailed if caught. Then where was the other screw job called the Bay of Pigs....
A good principle to guide me through life: “This is all I have come to expect, standard lackluster performance. Trust nothing, believe no one and realize it will only get worse…”
I was one year old . my x fil was in mayport at the time . he told me that the navy sent every ship to the south as soon as they had enuff guys to move the ship then sent the rest of the crew how ever it took to get them on their ship just to be the first target to keep the nukes off of the USA said they sent most of east coast navy south .
My opinion of it is,..both sides were playing an intense game of "chicken". But I think both sides were still a long way off from actually pushing the button.
For one thing, Castro and all of the Russian advisors in Cuba knew for a *fact* that the entire island would be wiped from the face of the earth during the first minutes of a nuclear exchange.
They weren't eager to commit suicide.
Once again a democrat f u c k e d this up and badly. Yeah the Russians took the missiles out, but we removed ours from Turkey AND immediately stopped supporting Cuban exile insurgencies all across the board. I know because there were a lot of small boats leaving out of our house in Coral Gables on their way to Cuba and not only was that stopped, but the anti-communist freedom fighters were jailed if caught. Then where was the other screw job called the Bay of Pigs....
That and Kennedy was high as a kite from pain meds when he met with Khrushchev the first time in Vienna. Khrushchev thought he was a piker.
I was 23 then and remember it well. Folks were nervous for 13 days.
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I saw a made for TV movie called the day after or some such thing when I was very young. Nuclear war truly scares the [bleep] out of me and I began to realize exactly what we did to Japan.
Nuclear war must NEVER be allowed to happen again.
Of course the survivor ould have to remain in the bunker for years and to repopulate the earth we'd have to take extraordinary measures. Say ten women for each man. Hmm?
The key elements in human thinking are not numbers but labels of fuzzy sets. -- L. Zadeh
I was 2. Earliest memories I have was watching Kennedy’s funeral on TV with GrandDad at 3.
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I was still 2 years from being born but my Dad remembers being home and seeing Hawk SAM batteries on Miami Beach.
If you'd like to read a really excellent book about the aerial recon program over the island I recommend Blue Moon over Cuba . Tons written about the politics of the event but this is really about the tactical squadrons that did the photo work.
The bulk were Navy RF-8's but it also covers the RF-101 and U-2. Well worth a read.
Not an accurate clip but it always gets me smiling - Other than Major Rudy's U-2 being bagged (and the book covers that Russian FU in detail) no planes suffered any damage.
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I was 10 and remember it well. 'Duck and Cover', had been taught that since the 1st grade. Probably because we lived near Dyess and were told all military bases would be targets. By the time the Cuban Crisis happened, we lived in La. and didn't practice the drill. We watched it unfold daily, on the news, and I was old enough to know it was serious. There for a few days, I, along with everyone I knew, was really worried. I remember a teacher in school getting on to a group of us for talking about it at recess, didn't want us to scare the younger kids.
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Was ballpark 13 years old and quickly grew bored with the duck and cover drills we were doing at school. Classroom desks didn't present much cover from my perspective.
I am..........disturbed.
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I was 2. Earliest memories I have was watching Kennedy’s funeral on TV with GrandDad at 3.
Odd but me too. Was even younger
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