Cuban Missile Crisis

i did a research paper on it in college. incredible how that whole thing unfolded.

IDK, but I think Kennedy is only popular because he was attractive to the ladies. He put this country in a dangerous position.

I was four so I do not remember it.

I do know that my Dad who had been in the army at the end of the Korean conflict was notified he may get called up as a reserve NCO. I think he got out of the Army in 55 or 56.

I am asking out of ignorance, but what did that indicate? Was the system hacked?

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One guy on a Russian sub in a vote basically saved us from war.

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which is why the 'doomsday clock' being closer to midnight with Trump in office today is laughable.

people don't remember what a real crisis looks like.

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IDK, but I think Kennedy is only popular because he was attractive to the ladies. He put this country in a dangerous position.

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His popularity actually went UP after the Cuban Missile crisis.

His flight logs were done by hand. There was nothing to hack in the 50s. I have no clue why they are blank but I suspect it has something to do with the Squadron having nuclear weapons. Dad was the only Marine to drop a nuclear test weapon and the arming pin is now in a cabinet in my house.

There were operable nuclear devices during the Cuban Missile Crisis at Tyndal and/or Eglin.

Usually those bad boys were kept a long ways away from Florida Man’s native habitat.

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the arming pin is now in a cabinet in my house.

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shite thats more rare than a moon rock.

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people don't remember what a real crisis looks like.

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The American People don't know what a real War looks like either (except those who have served and seen the action of course).

I was born in the year 1AK (After Kennedy). I can remember when there were 3 network channels and maybe 1-2 local independent stations per city. There was no 24 hr news, not even on radio. Every household in the Nation got the news at Noon(combo nat'l/local), 5pm (national),5:30pm (local),6pm(national), and 10pm(local/national recap). That's it. Morning newspaper too.

The one thing all those newscasts had? The hundreds of injured and dead American service members in Viet Nam. Literally hundreds, usually filmed and broadcast. Talking actual footage of stepping over bodies, exploding ordinance, flamethrowers and their targets on flame, the bleeding, moaning, dying in the MASH units, firefights between US infantry and the communist forces, bullets ricocheting all around the reporter, right on the TV in the living room for all to see.

Every day and night for a decade. War, death, injury by the thousands in every home in America.

This is the kinda thing that drove the tangible fear of actual global thermonuclear war into the hearts and minds during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Think of it as this Corona Virus concern on steroids and broadcast everywhere you turned 24/7. Kinda like the whole Nation had a case of PTSD by the time Viet Nam ended.