Where were you during the Cuban Missile Crisis?

Question

I was around 11 or 12 and I remember my mom talking about the possibility of war. Very scary moment.

Answer 1

At Guantanamo Bay Cuba with the 5th Marine Expeditionary Brigade.

Answer 2

I was 23, my wife was 20 and our daughter had just been born the month before. I recall the newspapers recommended that everyone get clothing and food together in case we had to evacuate the city. We did get the stuff together and kept it in a closet, ready to go, for a couple of years.

Young people will laugh at this now but it was not laughing matter at the time. I was actually quite frightened, not so much for myself, but for my wife and daughter since I was in the Army and likely would have had to leave them on their own. Thank God I didn't have to.

I think the Cuban Missile Crises was probably a closer call than we will ever know.

Answer 3

The Cuban Missile Crisis was the military confrontation, between the United States, the Soviet Union, and Cuba when the Cold War threatened to become a nuclear war. The Russians call it the "Caribbean Crisis," while the Cubans call it the "October Crisis." Like the Berlin Blockade it was one of the major confrontations of the Cold War.

The confrontation began on October 14, 1962, when U.S. reconnaissance photographs taken by an American U-2 spy plane revealed missile bases being built in Cuba, in response to similar U.S. bases built at the Turkish-Soviet border. After a bellicose confrontation on October 28, 1962, both U.S. President John F. Kennedy and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, with the U.N. Secretary General's intercession, agreed to remove their respective nuclear missiles.

This Russo-American confrontation was synchronous with the Sino-Indian War, dating from the U.S.'s military quarantine of Cuba; historians speculate that the Chinese attack against India, for disputed land, was meant to coincide with the Cuban Missile Crisis.[


In 1962 I was in 7th grade and remember the fear expressed by my dad a WWII vet

Answer 4

I was 18 or 19 years old, living on my own in a studio apartment in Portland, OR. When the president's decision was broadcasted it scared me a LOT. Ever since grade school there had been a huge emphasis on anything to do with the Soviet Union. We were schooled in diving under our desks for when the SU dropped the atomic bomb, for god's sake! I started high school with the "shame" of the U.S. being beaten into space by the Soviets. Then, to top it off, no one I spoke to about the Cuban missle crisis saw it as nearly as dangerous as I did. Made me feel very weird ...

Answer 5

I was aboard the USS Page County LST 1076
We left San Diego as part of a US Marine Corps landing force. We Steamed through the Panama Canal and made ready for a beach assault on Cuba. Until the Russians backed off we patrolled along the Isles of Puerto Rico.
By February we were in San Francisco.
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Answer 6

I was l5 at the time and still have vivid memory's of this.
I remember sitting on the stairs in front of my flat, and waiting for the BOMB to drop, literally. I was in San Francisco at the time, and being a big city, was sure that we would be one of the targets to be hit. And thinking that there wasn't a damn thing we could do about it. It was a very scary time. let's hope it never comes to that again.

Answer 7

I was just out of the army and partying it up in New Orleans, a prime target. We, the gang I hung out with and I, were sitting around the bar at Lafayette's in Exile Planning to put together a company of fools to go and entertain our troops if a war started. Thanks for the reminder of just how foolish youth was/is. It still makes me laugh.

Answer 8

I was living in Southern California, you couldn't even get on the freeway for people running up and down it. There was very little food in stores, people were packing up campers and kids and running--where?? I knew people that went and bought guns and were loading ammo by the bags full. My hubby even got a notice that he could be recalled into the army and that he was considered on stand by. My thought was if they are going to get us let it land on my head so it is over Now.

Answer 9

I was on a bus coming home from school and heard some people on the bus talking about how all the stores had empty shelves because people were afraid we were going to be bombed.

Answer 10

the cuba crisis was On October 22, 1962, soo i hadnt been born