Imagine you were living in the United States during the Cuban Missiles Crisis...?

Question

What is going through your head as you hear or read about the cuban missile crisis in the news. consider what feelings do you have? what do you think will happen? how are people around you reacting? and how does your location in the US influence the news you receive or how you feel about it?

Answer 1

At that time.

Sure will throw pots and pans over.

When one was mess around.

Decode this lyrics " Heal the wounds"

That was back in the past in our youth.

Genesis 8.21

But time changed.

We get older and wiser.

Luke 16.9-12

Still living in misery with faulty communication system..

Have no solution to solve it.

Decode this lyrics "Another day in paradise"

But try to make it.

Before leaving with time.

For the good of the little ones and for the good of mankind out there.

Decode this lyrics " Never can say good-bye"

Only if someone can reach out and extend a helping hands with "He's ain't heavy, he's my brother"

Matt 5.9-14

Time not on our side.

Sad to leave them all standing at loss and blurr out there.

Luke 9.25,55-56,60

What do you think?

Answer 2

I was  living in America at the start of the Cuban missle crisis. Life went on as usual. Unless you lived in the deep south you didn't think much about it. Oh, yes, I was also in the military and my thoughts were if it  breaks lose I'm going to Cuba. A few weeks, before it did break lose I was in Guantanamo. Life changed rapidly. But the Bay of Pigs ended that era of history and now you know the rest of the story.

Answer 3

Is this homework?  The thing to remember about any empathy piece like this is that two people of the same age, race, s*x etc, can have completely different responses to the same event.  Personally, being a communist myself, I would know that the Russian comrades would never start a war, which they didn't, unlike the Americans, who started several and caused the problem by stationing missiles in Turkey, just over the Russian border.

Answer 4

I remember very vividly, and we were expecting war to break out at any time, and hear the wail of the air raid sirens.

I was terrified, as were most people.

Answer 5

I did live in through the missile crisis and remember it well.

My whole existence was shaken when my Mum and Dad told me that my growing collection of Barbie dolls would have to take a back seat to a trip to visit my great grandmother in Arizona. We all had to do our part while the government waffled and floundered over a seemingly ridiculous inability to counter the failure of our "secrete" intelligence community to observe the obvious.

We went to Arizona,  a trip I only remember because of the awesome train ride, and returned to our community in Indiana. A tornado had plowed threw the neighborhood and destroyed much of what we knew. I only remember a drinking straw had been forced into a tree trunk... but that could have been a story my brother told me.

I'm being honest because as a child of the times I grew up with the nuclear "drop and roll", the Russian cold war, hippies, flair legged pants, Tang, and a time when we did not hang out in the house watching TV because "outside" was freedom. Oh my creaky bones!

Answer 6

I don't need to imagine, I was.  We had nuclear war drills in school till I was in high school.  Get under the desk and put your math book over your head.  LOL  Yeah, that will help.

Answer 7

My mother said she was pretty worried because she was living in Florida at the time, not far from the closest military base to Cuba.