One of the watershed events of our childhood was the Cuban Missile Crisis in late October 1962, because we all thought America was going to war with the dreaded Russians. The specter of nuclear holocaust in our own back yard awoke us from the slumber of undisputed world leadership and prosperity that had typified the 50s. For us baby boomers, the wake-up call was personified by a new twist in our school day routine known as the Air Raid Drill, probably the first and last time such activities occurred in the continental United States, since the end of the Second World War.
Posted on: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 20:19:31 +0000