We believed in the communist menace back then. Who could forget the Cuban Missile Crisis? I was petrified that i would die a virgin.
Have you achieved your goal? ;^)
Did the virgin thing ever get fixed?
Read McEwan much?
Sunday will be the 60th anniversary of the date dependents were evacuated from GITMO and President Kennedy announced the crisis to the world. They yanked us out of school, took us home, and we boarded the ships with our mothers. Of course Dad stayed on the base.
The ship we were on had been taking old ammunition out to sea to be dumped when it got the orders to evacuate us. Because it was overloaded it couldn’t keep up with the convoy, so we were alone. A Soviet submarine was alongside us the whole trip. We learned after the fall of the Soviet Union they had orders to sink our ship if hostilities broke out.
The world was a hair’s width from thermonuclear war.