Do many of you remember the Cuban crises in school and the school drills for the A Bomb?

Question

I remember by dad saying if you hear it see it feel it don't worry about it. He was at white sands when they set off the first one

Answer 1

you mean the duck n cover campaign.no,i was all ready out of school,but i worked in the school system from1959 till 1969 and i remember the kids getting under their desks or standing in the halls with their arms covering ther head.i also remember my grand mother in the 50s and early 60s had a big bomb shelter stacked full of canned goods and water.

Answer 2

Yes. I remember it well. That's because I was a Hospital Corpsman with the Fifth Marine Expeditionary Brigade at Guantanamo Bay Cuba. My transfer off of a nice quiet submarine tender in San Diego happened within half an hour of President Kennedy discussing some island called "Cuber", which I was not familiar with.
It wasn't until the mid-1990s, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, that we found out the ranking Soviet commander in Cuba had unilateral launch authority for both the intermediate range missiles and the short range "Frog" missiles that were to be used against any American landing force. So, unknown to us at the time, we were all about nine minutes from blowing up the whole planet.

Answer 3

In school, during the late 40's and 50's, they taught us the "duck and cover" thingie... Lordy, weren't we naive back then.

During the Cuban missile crises, I was a young mother with two babies and I was terrified. Living in the northeast, 2 hours from Washington, 2 hours from New York, I knew we would be goners. I can remember laying in bed and not being able to sleep for thinking of my children and my loved ones...hoping that if anything happened, we would be ground zero and it would all be over with - all at once.

What fools men are...what fools to rattle swords and tempt each other with deadly toys.

If women ruled all the countries of the world, there would be no more wars.

Answer 4

I sure remember "Duck and Cover" in the 50s. When the Cuban Missile Crisis took place I lived across the highway from a major Air Force Base. My husband was stationed on Okinawa and I was alone with my 7 month old son. I was 18 yrs. old and terrified. I bough some bottled water, powdered milk and lots of baby food. I took it with me to my aunt's house in Kansas City. She had a basement. Like that was going to do any good. What did I know?

Answer 5

Yes, I do remember the Atomic Bomb shelter debates and the school drills. I was scared for a while but my parents calmed me down. In the small town where we lived there was only one family who actually built a bomb shelter. I remember a teacher saying that anyone with a bomb shelter would have to kill people to keep them out of it. The teacher thought it was useless to have one.

Answer 6

yes I remember that. the cuban crises was a big amd scarry thing at the time. I remember the thre drills and non stop talk about it on all the tv stations....

Answer 7

I remember it very well, I was in South Africa so we did not have drills, but I do remember my father and mother listening to the news, and they were worried. 1962.? And The Bay of Pigs.

It was a very serious time and could well It must have been worse to have been in America. have ended up in a World War.

Answer 8

I remember very well. I did not realize then that if *it* happened we would be dead before we ever realized it. I guess that those drills were to give us some sense of control or to make us think that there was actually a chance of survival.

Answer 9

Yes indeed, seventh grade, single file out the door, line the hall, squat, put your head down, put one hand over the back of your neck and the other over the back of your head.

And Kennedy that night in black-and-white giving the warning. Absolutely. Not something you forget. And the following days showing proof the missiles were successfully turned away. "Cuber", Kennedy pronounced "Cuba" in his Boston accent.

Answer 10

I do remember the Cuban missle crisis but not the drills.