re: Thirteen Days

"Are these twenty millimeter or forty millimeter sparrows, sir?"

Indeed a very good movie.

The Cuban Missile Crisis is largely unknown these days. I remember my dad telling me about trains passing though Abita Springs carrying tanks and artillery on the way to Florida in case we had to invade. He was thirteen at the time, and said for a kid, it was both a scary and exciting time, but for the adults, it was only scary.