[Gay State Conservative]

I remember.I was 13...not "worldly" but not entirely clueless.The Principal of the school came on the loudspeaker and said "boys and girl,something terrible has happened but I can't tell you what it is"...and that basically all she said.

For the rest of the afternoon I and a few other kids were afraid that every plane that we heard fly overhead was a Russian bomber ready to blow us to Kingdom Come.

[null and void]

The Cuban Missile era ‘duck and cover’ drills on a Marine Corps base in the southeast were still quite fresh in my mind.