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My first historical mromey is of the Cuban Missile Crisis. I was 6 yrs. old, in the first grade in Birmingham, AL. Thankfully, I did not grasp the concept of nuclear weapons yet. I had little understanding of what was going on. My mental image of the whole thing was a couple of Cubans in a row boat in the Gulf of Mexico lobbing grenades at us. I did not see what all the fuss was about, as I knew they could not throw those grenades to Birmingham. Mobile might be in trouble, but not us.   I remember the school had a form all our parents had to fill out indicating whether we would stay at the school or go home in the event of an attack. Most of us little kids would stay at school, while a lot of the bigger kids were to go home.We had a drill one day. All us first graders were marched single file downhill (the school is built on the side of a hill) to the lowest level of the school. I looked back as we were marching down & saw the bigger kids running home. Kids were going ever