I was in my early elementary school years. Duck and cover drill in the inside hallways at school were a regular thing. In later years I realized how much in the target zone I might have been. I'm sure that back in that day ICBM's were probably not super accurate(with a nuke, don't have to be). We lived in the middle of the East Texas oil and gas fields and Barksdale AFB was only 50-60 miles away, We were either a secondary target or at risk if a missile overshot its intended target.

I was almost 2, so, I did live through it.

That's about it.

Can you imagine the absolute panic if something like that happens today. Social media and the msn would cause total chaos.

I lived through it but was in diapers and had other things on my mind at the time.

I was 9 in a Chicago suburb. I remember the drills in school. The desks we hid under must have been built better than they are now.

I don't remember it affecting us at home.

I was born during the crisis does that count.

I was 4 and living in another country...

but I guess I lived through it

as did everyone else on the planet

I was crapping my pants every day. Literally. I was 9 months old at the time.

My 1,000th post. And I'm talking about crapping my pants.....gotta love it.

I was eight years old, I remember my mother being quite concerned for my ten year older brother who was in the Marines at that time.

Also remember the drills at school going into the basement and sitting on the floor, putting our heads between our knees and kissing our ass's goodbye.

I was ten. I do not remember any drills or duck and cover in school.

What I do remember was the radio and television coverage.

Well I"m late to the thread. I was almost 32 years old. Worked for an architectural firm and were required to provide 10% of construction cost for shelter area in public buildings. Most of us were either WWII or Korean vets and thought it was dumb.

Buckeye1

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Originally posted by ArLEOret:
I was stationed at Sheppard AFB. We were on alert. Had a XNavy SEAL there that reupped in the AF and he was notified to be ready to be called back.

Doubtful he was an ex-SEAL as the program was just 10 months old.

maybe an original bell ringer of the program?

I remember it well. Living in southern Texas (North Mexico) at the time. Now its clear to me that unless the Russkies want to kill a bunch of citrus trees and wet backs, I was pretty safe.

RMD

I went down to talk to an Air Force recruiter. He said, "You're married with children. Go home" That's the closest I got to being a fighter pilot.

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Originally posted by LS1 GTO:

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Originally posted by ArLEOret:
I was stationed at Sheppard AFB. We were on alert. Had a XNavy SEAL there that reupped in the AF and he was notified to be ready to be called back.

Doubtful he was an ex-SEAL as the program was just 10 months old.

maybe an original bell ringer of the program?

Not doubtful. Likely a UDT man, who are grouped, by common association, with SEALs. Their existence extends well before the SEAL program emerged.

I was 28, had been to Korea at the end of that crisis, had finished my ready reserve obligation, finished school and was trying to build a career.

I don't remember feeling particularly threatened, but I certainly thought that the Kennedys were a worthless pair, and I should have been more worried than I remember being.

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Originally posted by oldRoger:
I should have been more worried than I remember being.

As worried as most people were at various times during the Cold War, the things I learned after its end (or the end of the First one) scared me far more than what I knew at the time. Part of that was obviously due to the requirements of military secrecy, part was Executive Branch decisions to avoid causing more fear than there already was, and part was—I’m convinced—due to the desire of the then-developing leftist BS media to help promote the myth that their Communist buddies were the harmless, peace-loving folk they claimed to be.

10 years old, duck and cover as taught by nuns in elementary school. I remember seeing orange fallout shelter signs everywhere. I was in Hartford Conn.

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Originally posted by Sgt Neutron:
I was crapping my pants every day. Literally. I was 9 months old at the time.

Me too, although I was 4 months old.

I don't remember anything about it. I wonder what I knew that somebody wanted me to forget. Actually, I would have been four years old.

I was 18 at the time and didn't hear a thing about it until it was well over. I was right in the middle of boot camp in San Diego and we had no idea what was going on in the outside world.