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I still remember the drills in grade school that we did, where we crawled under the desks or went into the basement rooms. Because I was a little kid, I had no idea of the seriousness of the situation. And just today, PBS ran a show about the Cuban missile crisis.



Yeah, I think I could see why you might not have fully understood the reason for 'em, Rich...especially if you grew up in Iowa.

'Cause with probably half of my fellow kids' dads, who like my father worked for one of the many aerospace defense plants in the L.A. area at the time, WE little ones were told from the get-go that OUR area of the country would in all likelihood be Number-1 on the Ruskies' "hit parade" when the missiles started flyin'.

(...and yeah, I've been wantin' to see this flick too...from most reports, Spielberg has made a pretty good movie)

"au contrare" (), Dwight, there was SOME reason to be worried, even here in the midwest! Ya see, one of the main Army arms manufacturing facilities was just twenty miles north of us, and at that time, producing nuclear components. (That's what I was told) So the town fathers WERE worried, thinking that although we wouldn't be a first strike, we COULD be a second or third strike target.And I WAS working there during the 9/11 terrorist strike. The next day I was practically STRIPPED SEARCHED when I went in to go to work. But sure, nothing like living on a military base, especially if you were in Florida or the East coast area! Now, THAT would have been scary!

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