In the previous message, The Pioneering Age of Radio & Security (Part One), the author alluded to the “Red Scare” and the Cuban missile crisis. Here is the author’s memory of a day in October 1962… <feature photo by ccecoldwar1.weebly.com I sat at my desk eating lunch at elementary school on Wednesday, October 24, 1962. My…
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Coming of Age | Atomic Bombs and Pepsodent Toothpaste
History is a great teacher. Recent media rumbles of a return to the Cold War era with Russia took me back to my beginnings… Setting the Table After WWII After WWII and up until the early 1960’s, the U.S. experienced a “coming of age.” Like a kid in one of Norman Rockwell paintings who suddenly…
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