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I was also pissed at my parents because they wouldn't buy one of those cool pre-fab bomb shelters!
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That thought brought back some memories and made me laugh. Where we lived - about 8 miles from a SAC base - my Dad said a shelter wouldn't do us any good and was a waste of $$ - most of the ranchers around the area felt the same way and the only family to put one in were the McGinity's who had the big chicken ranch - smelliest place in the county and an alarmist bunch of folks who were about as skitterish as those chickens they raised. 
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During the Cuban crisis I was on Cape Cod and about 10 miles from Otis.
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Cuban Missle Crisis memories for me are of the adults being scared and literally glued to the news, and the sound of B-52s and KC-135s in the air day and night as they came and went from Mather AFB to the Bering Straits.
Richard
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“Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of (another)… There are just some kind of men who – who’re so busy worrying about the next world they’ve never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results.” - To Kill A Mockingbird (Atticus Finch)
“Almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.” - Robert Heinlein
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