In 1961, I was told that, when I was a G.I. brat, living on Otis AFB, MA, the furthermost land mass point, and location of the Continental Aerial Defense Identification Zone, protected by F-101 Voodoo fighters, and Bomarc ground-to-air long range “high yield” missiles.
The general in charge of the base came to my school. We had a lecture from him that ended with: “Kids, if you ever see a large flash happen on this base, just stop, look at the flash, and don’t worry about anything else. Your mom and dad will be doing their jobs, and they will be safe.”
‘Oooo, pretty!’
Remember Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, was 7 in 2nd grade
Big rumor at school that week was that Russkies had targeted
school. We figured be great if Russian nuked the school
so would have vacation......