The Cuban Missile Crisis

Remember the Cuban Missile Crisis? I remember eating supper at Grandmas, and Daddy came in from Claude Daniels saying "Kruchef gonna bum us, I rekon" "That's what all is sayin" "Evabody at Claudes was talkin bout it" Someone replied "It will be something you can tell your Grandkids about if he do" and we all laughed. I remembered the Atomic Bomb Drills from School...getting under the desk and covering your head with your hands. All the kids would laugh and say "it would be better just to bend over so you can kiss your butt goodbye" Laughing I guess was all we could do. I had heard of Fallout Shelters, in fact I had dug up the back yard with the intent of fixin us one until Daddy whittled the leaves off a Sweet Gum Branch and eyeballed me over the rims of his glasses. "Yo choice" he said matter of factly, and the Reese Fallout Shelter officially was closed and sealed over with some bare foot stompin. I guess our stress level won't as high as many folks because a "tube" had burnt out in our TV and we would be without until bacca come in the next Fall...unless money fell our way from somewhere else. If it was the "pictcha tube" the TV would be gone forever. I don't know if any of us at the time knew just how close the world was to unknown destruction if all out war had evolved. Can you imagine what would happen now, with both sides having thousands of nuclear devices..."It will be something you can tell your Grandkids about....and the bend over thing....in retrospect that was probably the best advice after all.....