I lived through the Cuban missile crisis
and I’m also old enough remember the Bay of Pigs and Kennedy’s inadequate support.
Your ‘what ifs’, while interesting fantasies, are only that.
I have hardly indulged in "interesting fantasies", these are not my "what if's" because, after all, you are the one who wants to put Donald Trump in a place where his finger is figuratively only inches away from the nuclear button.
You are the one who wants to impose on us and our children this risk of a man of such dubious moral character who can get us all killed.
I agree. My old man was at Continental Army Command at the time. I recall him getting calls to get back to work. The military was on high alert the entire time. Yes, we damn sure did very little to support the men who hit the beach. Many of us worried about a nuke war with Russia. The field grade officers and flag officers were not Kennedy fans back then. I met three Cubans in the Army who had been there. One was my AIT company CO at FT Dix NJ in 66 before I went to INF OCS. I met another named Cruz in fall 72- early June 73 in the IOAC (Infantry Officer’s Advanced Course) at Ft. Benning. The Captain rarely talked about it.