1962, the threat of nuclear war weighs heavily on the World, the sabre rattling of America and the Soviet Union amps up. Television and newspapers are filled with headlines and commentary about the real threat to mankind.
The people of the USSR and the free world are living in constant fear.
It’s race week, February 1963 in Daytona Beach Florida the rhetoric and fear mongering reaches its peak with the Cuban crisis. The USSR and Cuba are allies, missiles are being sent to Cuba by the USSR in retaliation for America’s build up in Europe, the question is, and will level heads prevail?
The US deploy Warships to block the USSR ships entry to Cuba, Voodoo jets patrol the Florida coast, they are within striking distance of Cuba.
The US deploy Warships to block the USSR ships entry to Cuba, Voodoo jets patrol the Florida coast, they are within striking distance of Cuba.
I am on vacation in Daytona with my sister, her husband and my grandmother. I was 18 at the time and like any other 18 year old ready to defend my country and the world if called to do so but, this would be no conventional war, it was very intimidating.
One day while walking the beach the Voodoo’s, in tandem, passed so low overhead you felt as though you could touch the undercarriage. Suddenly the banked and headed to Cuba, once out over the Atlantic they lit up the afterburners and were gone, just like that.
Is today the day? Thank God not
Life is very fragile and every generation faces some kind of threat COVID-19 is just one more in the chain but we have science on our side and I believe in the miracle of science and the incredible ability of those who practice it, just like my generation survived a cold war so will you survive COVID-19 and so shall I survive yet another.
Stay calm, stay smart and most of all stay safe
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