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Faygo Kid

(21,478 posts) Sun Oct 14, 2012, 08:11 PM Oct 2012

50 years ago today: The Cuban Missile Crisis began.

I remember. I was just a kid, but I remember watching JFK's speech, and being chilled to the bone about a nuclear war that until then was just duck and cover in elementary school. It was an incredible time. JFK and RFK saved us. And I watched that address on television, as a just turned 11 year old. I grew up a lot then.

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50 years ago today: The Cuban Missile Crisis began. (Original Post) Faygo Kid Oct 2012 OP

I remember as well. I lived at what would have basically been one of the three first targets niyad Oct 2012 #1

One humongous reason NOT to vote republican. shraby Oct 2012 #2

dam i was 15.. madrchsod Oct 2012 #3

niyad

(113,325 posts)

1. I remember as well. I lived at what would have basically been one of the three first targets

Reply to Faygo Kid (Original post)

Sun Oct 14, 2012, 08:35 PM

Oct 2012

of a nuclear exchange, and I remember waiting to hear those sirens. all of our bases here were on high alert, and the children of those military members in school were, to say the least, very nervous.

shraby

(21,946 posts)

2. One humongous reason NOT to vote republican.

Reply to Faygo Kid (Original post)

Sun Oct 14, 2012, 09:07 PM

Oct 2012

madrchsod

(58,162 posts)

3. dam i was 15..

Reply to Faygo Kid (Original post)

Sun Oct 14, 2012, 09:33 PM

Oct 2012

where in the hell did the time go..........

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