Remember when: There was a crisis in the early 1960s

In the early 1960s our country was in a Cold War with the Soviet Union.

Fidel Castro had taken power in Cuba and aligned himself with the Russians. As a young teacher in Miami, I was instructed to prepare our students for a possible attack. Instructions were given to have students practice crawling beneath their desks and placing their hands over their heads.

Talks were given at school and pamphlets generated with instructions on how to build bomb shelters. When Army vehicles started rumbling down U.S. 1 to Homestead Air Force Base, it looked like something big was going to happen.

Thank God, the situation was resolved. My students are now in their 50s.

Do they remember the time spent huddled under their desks or their teacher appearing to be cool and unruffled?

He wasn't.