Reply #57: The Cuban Missile Crisis was the same for me

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We were sure that we were going to die in a nuclear holocaust. It changed my entire view of the world. Many of us during that period thought we would not live to adulthood, much less get old. Or if we did survive it would be in a Mad Max, post-apocalyptic world.

Here is the difference - we then got hit with losing John Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Bobby Kennedy, John Lennon. And all the public figures who burned themselves out on drugs. The crooked election of Richard Nixon, Watergate, the hearings and the resignation. The end of the Vietnam War, which should have been a good thing but the way we bailed out was a clusterfuck.

Damn - looking back at that, it's a wonder more of my generation survived. And no wonder many of us tuned out politics.

At least we had the Moon landing.