are you old enough to remember 60 years ago today the Cuban missile crises began

[greybeard]

I was 12 but clearly remember my parents and oldest sister watching black and white tv intently and my brother and I as well as my youngest older sister did not go to school for a couple of days in that period.



(We should be thankful Vasili Arkhipov had good instincts and balls the size of Jupiter)

 

[Travlr]

Remember the "disaster drills" in school? Hiding under the desk to protect us from a nuclear attack? LOL... We were so innocent.

 

[greybeard]

Bert, the nuclear turtle.
and this.........

 

[Named'em Tamed'em]

Growing up 2 miles from a major West Coast Navel Station we always had drills.

 

[greybeard]

Growing up 2 miles from a major West Coast Navel Station we always had drills.

Really--a Navel Station?
Well, it is the West Coast.

 

[Named'em Tamed'em]

My dad was working at the local Nike missile site in Olalla WA. 1962 I was 2.

 

[klm3030]

I was on high alert on a Minuteman Missile team in North Dakota. our orders to get them in the green (launch ready).

 

[Caustic Burno]

I was 12 but clearly remember my parents and oldest sister watching black and white tv intently and my brother and I as well as my youngest older sister did not go to school for a couple of days in that period.



(We should be thankful Vasili Arkhipov had good instincts and balls the size of Jupiter)

Remember it well listening to dad and uncles watching it on tv.

 

[Rafter S]

I was born in 1961, so no, I don't remember it. Although, if it happened last week I can't promise I'd remember either.

 

[faster horses]

Remember the "disaster drills" in school? Hiding under the desk to protect us from a nuclear attack? LOL... We were so innocent.

I remember.
I also remember our principal coming into our classrooms and warning us of the dangers of communism.
That hasn't happened for a very long time. Sad to say.

 

[wbvs58]

I remember it but obviously things were a lot closer to home for you people.

Ken

 

[backhoeboogie]

I was too young. Born in '59. First tragic memory was JFK assassination.

But - what you need to remember is this was just over 20 years after Pearl Harbor. That generation was tuned in to reality. They all took this serious and it was serious.

 

[Jeanne - Simme Valley]

I was 15.

 

[bbirder]

I recall some old taxi drivers in San Diego telling us that they almost couldn't make a living in '62. It seems no one wanted to pay a cabbie cash for a ride home when the bars closed.

 

[kenny thomas]

In 1962 there wasn't any option except cash.
I was born in 1957 so barely remember it. Several of the schools here still have the fallout shelter signs.

 

[Lee VanRoss]

I was going to write about the stand off , aircraft loaded for a one way mission (if necessary) from my vantage point as a
young armament mechanic but I am so joyously relieved to this day that it turned out the way it did and that is enough for me.

 

[bbirder]

In 1962 there wasn't any option except cash.
I was born in 1957 so barely remember it. Several of the schools here still have the fallout shelter signs.

Wrong Kenny! Most of the sailors were put to sea for the Cuban crisis drying up San Diego, but as the story was told the wives and bar maids had trading material. I was born in 1944.

 

[kenny thomas]

Wrong Kenny! Most of the sailors were put to sea for the Cuban crisis drying up San Diego, but as the story was told the wives and bar maids had trading material. I was born in 1944.

I stand correct. Hahaha

 

[Dave]

I would have been 11. I remember doing the under the desk drills in school. Signs for fall out shelters in town. We were right in the middle of some prime targets. Next door to McChord Air Force base and Fort Lewis. The Bremerton ship yard just a few miles north and Boeing even closer.

 

[davesr]

I remember it but obviously things were a lot closer to home for you people.

Ken

I certainly do. The let everyone go home from school.