As we try to sort through all the muck of a presidential campaign and
finally decide who we want the next Commander-in-Chief of the US Armed
Forces to be, I think we need, I mean REALLY NEED, to pause a moment and
reflect back to this same week fifty years ago.
For nearly two weeks, 13 days to be exact, the USA held its breath. Load noises shook us. Everyone watched the skies while convoys of military trucks with troops and war fighting materiel moved, day and night, east and south. Mobile radar units were hastily assembled on Florida beaches and the shorelines of other southeastern and Gulf Coast states. Mobile missile batteries were hastily set-up, laid in, and manned—ready for whatever was coming from the south.
US Military Reserve Units were placed on alert—as was the National Guard.
And then—we waited ... and prayed ... and waited.
A U-2 spy plane had taken photos over Cuba that, upon being analyzed on October 15th, 1962, showed, unmistakably, that the Soviet Union was building medium-range missile sites on that island just 90 miles off our southern shore.
For nearly two weeks, 13 days to be exact, the USA held its breath. Load noises shook us. Everyone watched the skies while convoys of military trucks with troops and war fighting materiel moved, day and night, east and south. Mobile radar units were hastily assembled on Florida beaches and the shorelines of other southeastern and Gulf Coast states. Mobile missile batteries were hastily set-up, laid in, and manned—ready for whatever was coming from the south.
US Military Reserve Units were placed on alert—as was the National Guard.
And then—we waited ... and prayed ... and waited.
A U-2 spy plane had taken photos over Cuba that, upon being analyzed on October 15th, 1962, showed, unmistakably, that the Soviet Union was building medium-range missile sites on that island just 90 miles off our southern shore.
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