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electric_blue68

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7. Oh, geeeebz. I was 9 years old living on NYC. Target ?#2...

Fri Oct 22, 2021, 02:03 AM

Oct 2021

Oh, yeah. "Good times!"

I didn't watch the address as I wasn't watching TV evening news yet.

But I knew what was happening by the next day. We got the NY Times in our advanced class. Then after that day I saw some of the stuff on the evening news.

Plus we had air raid drills every month where the whole city was practically engulfed in the sirens. Also having been watching the nuclear testing "atomic monster" movies... I knew we could go "poof".
And we didn't know about Nuclear Winter, yet, either!

The movie "Thirteen Days" is good.

That was a damn rough time!

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59 years ago today on Oct. 22, 1962, President John Kennedy [View all] elleng Oct 2021 OP

I remember that well. PoindexterOglethorpe Oct 2021 #1

I was a freshman. murielm99 Oct 2021 #5

You are all of a year younger than me. PoindexterOglethorpe Oct 2021 #6

Remember it well. I was in junior high. The grownups were scared and that scared me Walleye Oct 2021 #2

I remember when this was going on dflprincess Oct 2021 #3

Same here, about the same age as you. Old enough to be scared, but not understanding all of it. Irish_Dem Oct 2021 #12

What 4 years did I miss? Backseat Driver Oct 2021 #4

Oh, geeeebz. I was 9 years old living on NYC. Target ?#2... electric_blue68 Oct 2021 #7

Don't you mean Karma13612 Oct 2021 #8

YES, thanks! elleng Oct 2021 #9

Well, as I was born that year... MoonchildCA Oct 2021 #10

I was in first grade. I lived in Japan and we did not have TV LeftInTX Oct 2021 #11