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Grandpa built a bomb shelter. In school we were drilled in evacuation to the fallout shelter. Nails were chewed watching President Kennedy lay out the situation.I wasn't born yet. If you were old enough back then to do you remember a sense of panic? Going to the grocery store, etc. What was that like? What did your family do?
Granpa eh ? Did he have oil lamps and canned soup ?Grandpa built a bomb shelter. In school we were drilled in evacuation to the fallout shelter. Nails were chewed watching President akennedy lay out the situation.I wasn't born yet. If you were old enough back then to do you remember a sense of panic? Going to the grocery store, etc. What was that like? What did your family do?
I was eight and the grownups were talking about the end of the world. It made even Cub Scouts pay attention.
And crates of saltines. My brother and I were forbidden to go into the shelter until 1964 when it finally dawned on everyone the futility of the thing. It became our clubhouse, then a root cellar, then demolished in 969 to become a garden plot.Granpa eh ? Did he have oil lamps and canned soup ?Grandpa built a bomb shelter. In school we were drilled in evacuation to the fallout shelter. Nails were chewed watching President akennedy lay out the situation.I wasn't born yet. If you were old enough back then to do you remember a sense of panic? Going to the grocery store, etc. What was that like? What did your family do?
I was eight and the grownups were talking about the end of the world. It made even Cub Scouts pay attention.
I was stationed at Ft Lewis, WA and the entire 4th Infantry Division boarded ships in Tacoma. We sailed to San Diego and took on a load of ammunition and supplies. Then we headed to the Panama Canal and on toward Cuba. We anchored offshore at Havana and next morning we got word that the Russians were departing Cuba so we sailed back to Tacoma. Tensions were very strained but when the Russians backed down from Kennedy's threat, things eased up. It was a dangerous period in U.S. history and a couple months later deployed three Battle Groups of the the Division to Berlin in three 6 month shifts. Things have always been tense with Russia ever since WWII and I still consider them our worst threat.I wasn't born yet. If you were old enough back then to do you remember a sense of panic? Going to the grocery store, etc. What was that like? What did your family do?
Yes...a fun personal story:I wasn't born yet. If you were old enough back then to do you remember a sense of panic? Going to the grocery store, etc. What was that like? What did your family do?
I wasn't born yet. If you were old enough back then to do you remember a sense of panic? Going to the grocery store, etc. What was that like? What did your family do?
Except the Russians didn't back down from Kennedy's threats. In fact, it was the opposite.I was stationed at Ft Lewis, WA and the entire 4th Infantry Division boarded ships in Tacoma. We sailed to San Diego and took on a load of ammunition and supplies. Then we headed to the Panama Canal and on toward Cuba. We anchored offshore at Havana and next morning we got word that the Russians were departing Cuba so we sailed back to Tacoma. Tensions were very strained but when the Russians backed down from Kennedy's threat, things eased up. It was a dangerous period in U.S. history and a couple months later deployed three Battle Groups of the the Division to Berlin in three 6 month shifts. Things have always been tense with Russia ever since WWII and I still consider them our worst threat.I wasn't born yet. If you were old enough back then to do you remember a sense of panic? Going to the grocery store, etc. What was that like? What did your family do?
Except the Russians didn't back down from Kennedy's threats. In fact, it was the opposite.I was stationed at Ft Lewis, WA and the entire 4th Infantry Division boarded ships in Tacoma. We sailed to San Diego and took on a load of ammunition and supplies. Then we headed to the Panama Canal and on toward Cuba. We anchored offshore at Havana and next morning we got word that the Russians were departing Cuba so we sailed back to Tacoma. Tensions were very strained but when the Russians backed down from Kennedy's threat, things eased up. It was a dangerous period in U.S. history and a couple months later deployed three Battle Groups of the the Division to Berlin in three 6 month shifts. Things have always been tense with Russia ever since WWII and I still consider them our worst threat.I wasn't born yet. If you were old enough back then to do you remember a sense of panic? Going to the grocery store, etc. What was that like? What did your family do?
JFK's incredible blunder of the botched Bay of Pigs invasion set the stage for the missile crisis. The Russians thought (correctly?) that they were dealing with a dilettante president who had bad advice from his A.G. brother who was more fixated with Cuba than he was with his job. The dirty little secret was that the Russians had (still have) boomer subs with nuclear missiles within striking distance of the U.S. while the pissing contest between JFK and Nikita K. brought us to Defcon #2
The Russians backed down and we occupied Berlin 4 months later. I deployed with my Battle Group. Almost everyone kept up with he news reports, same as in WWII.Except the Russians didn't back down from Kennedy's threats. In fact, it was the opposite.I was stationed at Ft Lewis, WA and the entire 4th Infantry Division boarded ships in Tacoma. We sailed to San Diego and took on a load of ammunition and supplies. Then we headed to the Panama Canal and on toward Cuba. We anchored offshore at Havana and next morning we got word that the Russians were departing Cuba so we sailed back to Tacoma. Tensions were very strained but when the Russians backed down from Kennedy's threat, things eased up. It was a dangerous period in U.S. history and a couple months later deployed three Battle Groups of the the Division to Berlin in three 6 month shifts. Things have always been tense with Russia ever since WWII and I still consider them our worst threat.I wasn't born yet. If you were old enough back then to do you remember a sense of panic? Going to the grocery store, etc. What was that like? What did your family do?
Behind closed doors, Kennedy agreed to dismantle PGM-19 Jupiter missles that were targeting Russia from Turkey. Kennedy backed down, not Russia.Except the Russians didn't back down from Kennedy's threats. In fact, it was the opposite.I was stationed at Ft Lewis, WA and the entire 4th Infantry Division boarded ships in Tacoma. We sailed to San Diego and took on a load of ammunition and supplies. Then we headed to the Panama Canal and on toward Cuba. We anchored offshore at Havana and next morning we got word that the Russians were departing Cuba so we sailed back to Tacoma. Tensions were very strained but when the Russians backed down from Kennedy's threat, things eased up. It was a dangerous period in U.S. history and a couple months later deployed three Battle Groups of the the Division to Berlin in three 6 month shifts. Things have always been tense with Russia ever since WWII and I still consider them our worst threat.I wasn't born yet. If you were old enough back then to do you remember a sense of panic? Going to the grocery store, etc. What was that like? What did your family do?
Ahhh, so they did go forward with keeping their nuclear missiles and short range bombers in Cuba and kept the 14 ships carrying weapons going to Cuba and didn't turn them back due to the blockade?
I wasn't born yet. If you were old enough back then to do you remember a sense of panic? Going to the grocery store, etc. What was that like? What did your family do?