[Adder]

It was a scarey time.
Prime time address...Mom and Dad somber. I knew just enough to be scared.
We almost died. Everyone.

[kanawa]

I was an 11-year-old Canadian living in Connecticut at the time.
Quite the scary time with the threat of nuclear weapons being used.

[MacNaughton]

It was a scarey time.

YouTube - Original Duck & Cover PSA 00:01:01 minutes

[Russ]

I remember Elinor Roosevelt and her liberal cronies raising money to send tractors to Cuba as a good will gesture and peace offering to Castro and his henchmen. Liberals were always commie pawns.

[mware]

Indeed it was a scary time. I was in 3rd grade and remember my dad organizing the family homesteads basement into an shelter. Going as far as putting sand bags against the basement Windows.

My parents discussed sending us to school that day. They decided to, but mom told us that if anything happened she would come and get us. I didn't quite understand what she meant by "happened" but I do recall lots of duck and cover drills leading up to it.