Whitstabletangerine
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We where playing Sheffield Wednesday at their place but the real ropic of the day was the realisation that nuclear war was likely to break out over Cuba.
On the previous evening the V-bombers of the RAF and their crews were put on alert and for the following 24 hours even though PM MacMillan had issued a statement that it was a spat between America and Russia we had nothing to fear.
The Americans were adamant that Russian missiles sites had been set up on the island just 90 miles from the Amercian mainland and put an embargo on ships entering Cuaba including those identified as carrying missiles and had threatened to invade Cuba unless the Russians backed down.
On that Saturday a U2 was brought down by a missile while proceeding over the island, it's pilot killed, although we did not hear about this until the following morning, but later in the day agreement was made between the Americans and Russians with Moscow withdrawing the ships with the missiles and the Americans agreeing to withdraw their Jupiter missiles from Turkey.
Just a week earlier I couldn't decide whether to visit my girl friend on the Saturday as it was here birthday or drive up to Sheffield for the match, as it happened the decision was made for me as the events over Cuba unfolded and the day was spent uncomfortably sitting in an aircraft.
Now the threat of Nuclear war over Ukraine is a possibility, rather like the Cuban missile crissis it is out of our hands, I just hope that some on here will be ariound in sixty years time to tell of the outcome of the present situation.
On the previous evening the V-bombers of the RAF and their crews were put on alert and for the following 24 hours even though PM MacMillan had issued a statement that it was a spat between America and Russia we had nothing to fear.
The Americans were adamant that Russian missiles sites had been set up on the island just 90 miles from the Amercian mainland and put an embargo on ships entering Cuaba including those identified as carrying missiles and had threatened to invade Cuba unless the Russians backed down.
On that Saturday a U2 was brought down by a missile while proceeding over the island, it's pilot killed, although we did not hear about this until the following morning, but later in the day agreement was made between the Americans and Russians with Moscow withdrawing the ships with the missiles and the Americans agreeing to withdraw their Jupiter missiles from Turkey.
Just a week earlier I couldn't decide whether to visit my girl friend on the Saturday as it was here birthday or drive up to Sheffield for the match, as it happened the decision was made for me as the events over Cuba unfolded and the day was spent uncomfortably sitting in an aircraft.
Now the threat of Nuclear war over Ukraine is a possibility, rather like the Cuban missile crissis it is out of our hands, I just hope that some on here will be ariound in sixty years time to tell of the outcome of the present situation.
