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I was in the 6th grade. Like

cmaukonen — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 04:36:33 +0000

In reply to Okay, I was 12 and therefore

I was in the 6th grade. Like duck and cover would really save our asses. And those silly ID bracelets would have been slag.

Okay, I was 12 and therefore

Richard Day — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 00:45:20 +0000

In reply to Happy 50th Anniversary

Okay, I was 12 and therefore in the 5th grade? I dunno, I was never held back although I should have been put in the 10th grade right away because....

Anyway, I had no idea what was going on; I had no idea that those films that we saw in school had anything to do with anything and I knew that those poor folks in Hiroshima could not take care of themselves underneath desks and such.

But that is okay because at the age of 62 I have not had the opportunity to read all of the files and the only defense I have for my ridiculous political positions is that I really know that Mitt has no idea what the current files really tell us.

the end

I was a just under two years

Elusive Trope — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 23:57:27 +0000

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I was a just under two years from leaving my previous life and starting this life (of which the sole purpose was to eventually irritate the life of a small child in Nova Scotia at the time, who unbeknownst to him at time had angered the gods).

Its interesting how much more

ocean-kat — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 22:40:33 +0000

In reply to I remember it well. I should

Its interesting how much more sophisticated cartoons were in our day compared to more recent times. There was so much irony, parody, and adult level humor in the cartoons back then. I wonder why and if that adult level content affected our minds. I wonder how or if the change affects the minds of children today.

I remember it well. I should

ocean-kat — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 22:24:39 +0000

In reply to Gettouttahere, if you knew

I remember it well. I should have know you'd come by and "pull a rabbit out of a hat." Anything else up your sleeve?

Gettouttahere, if you knew

artappraiser — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 22:02:20 +0000

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Gettouttahere, if you knew about Underdog, you also knew from the Saturday morning media who the enemy was:

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We were never going to

artappraiser — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 21:53:18 +0000

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We were never going to mutually destruct and I can tell you why.

One day 50 years ago this week, (I don't remember which day in particular, unfortunately,) after we came back from morning mass to break fast with our breakfasts (which had to be shoehorned into our lunchboxes with our lunch,) the nuns dragged us back to church to pray nearly all day for God to show the way for their dear President Kennedy. Perhaps it wasn't all day but it seemed like all day to us in 2nd grade. We had only just had it pounded into us how prayer worked, and so there was no reason to doubt that it would work on whatever the grownups were upset about. We just knew that it was our duty to save the USA and we did what we were told; no thanks required then or now.

Simon Barsinister really

quinn esq — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 21:31:49 +0000

In reply to I was four at the time. I'm

Simon Barsinister really wasn't his match, was he?

And that Sweet Polly Purebread. A real Hotsy-Totsy, that one.

I was fifteen. I was immortal

A Guy Called LULU — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 21:28:49 +0000

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I was fifteen. I was immortal back then so I didn't much give a flip at the time.

I know it isn't your favorite way to get info, but BloggingheadsTV has an extremely interesting interview with Peter Kornbluh of The National Security Archive. He was the first to get the recently released papers of Robert Kennedy and I'll bet he tells you things you didn't know before. Some he didn't know until recently. Anyway, below are the topic breakdowns.
    Fifty years later, lessons from the Cuban Missile Crisis   5:53
    Kennedy's secret overture to Castro   9:12
    Is Iran a slow-motion Cuban Missile Crisis?   6:13
    How the mythology of the Crisis has hurt America   5:29
    Kennedy's real strength: willingness to compromise   9:35
    How the US can have normal relations with Cuba   4:43

http://bloggingheads.tv/videos/11976

Of course I conveniently

AmericanDreamer — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 20:58:23 +0000

In reply to Well, fortunate for the

Of course I conveniently neglected to note that had the President by-passed the two of us and gone directly to the precocious and far more seasoned Emma for advice, he and all of us would have come out the same way in the end.