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Blast from the past...
How should you react to a missile alert?
Posted from bbc.co.ukPosted in these groups: 
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Posted 8 y ago
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there was a nuclear-war next to us
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there was a nuclear-war next to us
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I was almost not born. October 27th 1962 is when Robert Kennedy went over to the Russian Embassy in Washington to make a deal after the U-2 pilot was shot down over Cuba. This was the worst moment of the missile crisis. Had the US invaded Cuba missiles could have hit Washington DC in 5 minutes. The commanders on the ground had orders to fire in case they lost contact with Moscow. There were thousands of Russian troops on the ground as well in Cuba. We basically would only have time to pray and maybe call somebody if the phone lines weren't jammed.
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LTC Stephen Conway
So you're saying your dad was on standby to deploy? I knew of an employee that worked at this dealership that I once worked at and he was with the 82nd Airborne on the tarmac ready to move out and jump into Cuba. My mom and dad said that the grocery shelves were empty kind of like how they were prior to the hurricane hitting Florida and Texas. People are building bomb shelters and everybody was stressed out and hear my mom and dad were rehearsing the route to the hospital. I was born October 28th at 2:29 p.m. in the afternoon and by then they had announced that the deal was made. It was those days before. I'm sure the Hawaiians and major and representative Tulsi gabbard are pissed off that this happened.
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LTC Stephen Conway
My uncle servus Camp Pendleton and was the first lieutenant and went to Vietnam in 1965 on a C-130. He got out of the Marine reserve in 1969 as a captain. Once a marine, always a Marine!
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