He told me he thought that we were going to war, and for a short time, that his crew were part of the walking dead.
I was stationed in Germany and we were on alert and figured it was only a matter of time before a shooting war began.
The fear was that the red tanks would come across the Chec/Kraut border and we knew we were going to be the "holding force" i.e. cannon fodder.
The Sunday Masses were well attended during that period, the fear of immanent death brings out the latent religious beliefs in most people.
I'm sure us low life peons will never know how close we really came to the big bang, the secrets lie with JFK, his crew and his Russian counterparts.
My dad was the XO of a Gearing class destroyer that participated in the Cuban Blockade...