I am 75, I hid under a desk at school during the Cuban Missile Crisis

[Jarqui]

22. I still remember the 'fad' of folks in fear trying to build

bomb/fallout shelters underneath their homes or in areas nearby.

It was less than 20 years since Japan got nuked and WW2 ended.
Families were still recovering from that (some never did)
The Korean war was only about 10 years before.
Eisenhower, Truman & Churchill were still alive.
We were still living in the shadows of recent war.

As a young boy, there was no way to understand it all but you could see the worry etched on the faces of the adults around you. We had to be extra quiet when the news came on. Patience was more limited. You tried to be extra good because that might help your folks in some way deal with whatever it was you did not fully understand.

Yes, I remember it all too well. Yet in spite of that, I was caught up in JFK's Camelot - I believed in him and adored him. That confidence in him helped keep us calm.

I would handily agree with the poster above:
With Trump and his buffoons at the helm, this is a more dangerous time.
Not just for the conflict Trump is getting us into but there is no way those clowns in his admin have a clue about defending the nation. They can be played for the incompetent suckers they are. And Trump has alienated much of NATO. I do not see a lot of the world supporting Trump's behavior. If there is a second 9/11 or worse, I do not expect nearly as much sympathy or support from the rest of the planet like the US got after 9/11.

Meanwhile, the drunken, sexual assaulter who couldn't plan an effective military parade is the Secretary of Defense heading up the effort to protect the country.

These buffoons think they can lie their way out of this ...