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FERN MCBRIDE (NYC)'s avatar

Departing from this stirring and very frightening 60-years-ago-today step by step account of the most dangerous 24 hours of the Cuban Missile Crisis to warzone, Ukraine, where our treasured subscriber friend, Allen Hingston, traveled in order to take his wife, Tanya, and dog, Lucky, to Canada for safety.

'Arrived home yesterday tired and happy to be here. Got many hugs and kisses from Tanya. Lucky was glad to see me too but no kisses. He hates kisses. Tell the folks from LFAA that I am fine and also 83 emails behind in my reading including two LFAA.'

Allen or I will let you know when the family is in Canada, so that you can make contact with him. Who knows, he may drop by himself. We'll see.

PS In addition to being a nervous wreck reading this account, I was transfixed by the looks of The Lockheed U-2, nicknamed "Dragon Lady". It is an American single-jet engine, high altitude reconnaissance aircraft operated by the United States Air Force and ‘... remains the supreme, go-to jet for high-altitude reconnaissance. U-2s have been around since the 1950s and the US Air Force fleet maintains more than 30 of the spy planes.’

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Bill Alstrom (MA/Maine/MA)'s avatar

So many moments when emotions and/or a simple mistake could have ended life on Earth as we know it.

Nuclear weapons are nuts. They exist because we are a dysfunctional species toying with planetary destruction.

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