We're you around during the Cuban Missle Crisis? If so can you share your experience with me?

Question

I have to write a report on what it was like during the Cuban Missile Crisis. If you lived through the 13 terrifying days, can you tell me what it was like.
What was life like during that time?
How did you feel when you heard the news?
What did you think was going to happen?

Please tell me everything you remeber, every word will help A LOT.
Thanks.

Answer 1

I was way too young to really get what was going on but the grown-ups sure looked nervous. I remember people saying there's going to be a nuclear war, and we had to practice getting under our desks at school in case an atomic bomb went off. We used to kid about the procedure: Get under your desk, put your head between your legs, and kiss your a ss goodbye. There were these stupid commercials on TV with little Billy riding his bicycle when (Oh no!) a mushroom cloud appears over the horizon. Little Billy knows what to do and he shows you, to the tune of "Duck . . . and cover, tra la la la la la la." What a joke. People were building fall out shelters in their back yard. Good thing Russia backed down and took it's missiles back from Cuba.

Answer 2

No, but I did learn about it. During the Cuban Missle Crisis, The U.S. ran drills in case a nuclear attack would happen. What would happen is: 1) If you were in school, they wuold have sit behind a table and cover your face 2) I f you were at home and a test wnet off, you would run to a bunker you may have established (people established bunkers to be safe from explosion or radiation) or get underground and get into a safe position. People were thought to believe a nuclear attack could happen any second during the Cold War, ESPECIALLY during the Cuban Missile Crisis. I also heard both sides began to say there needed to be tighter security on nuclear weapons.

Answer 3

Being in the military at the time it was high alert,all leaves passes cancelled tour of duty extended 6 mpnths. I was in Europe at the time 7 th army at the time of both berlin and cuban crisis. The cold war started right after WWII ended (1945) during those times times tensions ran high. One expected that any day could be the day it happens. The russians at that time felt embolden and had the idea they could survive a nuclear attack not only survive but win a nuclear war. Here in the states many people built fallout shelters in their backyards stocked with food water and neccessary rations for life. Drills were held in schools and in some cases in public to test public preparedness. The U.S. government had a secret underground bunker built at greenbank Va. complete with lodging,hospitals,communications for the government officials and families and capable of running a country from there. It is now the site of a hotel resort type of facilities but at the time was built under the hotel that existed there and no on knew about it
,can you believe that? As for me I thought for sure this is it we are headed for diaster and no turning back as most others felt the same way. Life during that time was stressful you would try to put it out of mind but never really being able to completely rid the thoght of what could happen or was about to happen.

Answer 4

ok: i became into in severe college, my dad became right into a naval officer assigned to a destroyer on the Naval station, Key West, Florida. i became into ninety miles from Cuba, it truly is a 4 hour boat experience or a couple of minutes on any plane. Our abode, became into on the backside, and we've been on the coastline on the south end of the island. It became into particularly frightening as all of our dad's have been given referred to as out to their ships interior the middle of the night, and the subsequent morning, each and every of the mothers and youngsters watched from the coastline and a jetty, the long line of ships cruising out to sea. One won't be able to ignore such. It became into an extremely unhappy and demanding few days, then one morning military "HAWK" missile gadgets establish on the coastline. A HAWK missile sounds like 2 super missile fixed on a transportable trailer. It became into getting real severe. college became into closed on the Naval base became into "locked down', so we youngsters spent time on the coastline and took nutrition and cokes to the squaddies. We, of course, watched the television hourly. It became into in many situations that a information record could teach some US army ships and we knew what our dad's deliver extensive form became into. It became into very very own, we figured we may be the 1st to bypass. Key West is a flat island on the top of the Florida keys. No the place to cover, run or such, as a results of fact the days previous my dad's destroyer got here in for sometime, all of us comprehend comprehend that they picked up extra intensity rates for anti-submarine operations. some histories say they actually dropped some on sub contacts. Then it became into over. army "brats" as any protection stress youngsters get the photograph, as we grew up with it. comprehend that a marvelous form of the U. S. plane have been based in Key West and the subsequent key: Boca Chica at the two Naval Air Stations. There hourly flights '24/7" for the finished time. i think that those pilots and army crews could have fought extra suitable difficult has their familes have been so close to to Cuba. Then all of it ended yet one in no way forgets being that close or that afraid.

Answer 5

i was born in 1961, and i recall the nuclear escape drills, under the desk ect... that left an impression on me... later in the military i had the opportunity to visit Japan's Hiroshima... it was a moving experience. that rings true man's acts against man

Answer 6

I was in grade school. I remember we had drills to see how fast we could hide under our desks from a nuclear attack.

Answer 7

if you really want to know, ask a parent or someone around there.