Many won't remember the tensions mounting between the US and Russia over Russian nuclear weapons being set up in Cuba. At the time it was important to have a President with character and with a backbone, but isn't that need still important today? J.D. Longstreet tells the story.
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Bruce
"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."
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