Quote:
Quote:
You should have been walking to grade school on a military base the week of the Cuban Crisis. We knew it was serious.
That kid would be me, my dad was stationed at Homestead AFB during that time. It was very, very tense.
Yes, I grew up on military reservations, prior to the crisis I had never seen anyone carrying a rifle except on parade. Never in the grade school cafeteria. 
Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.
H. L. Mencken
| 
