Category: Cuban Pork

Recently there was a showing of Thirteen Days on the television. Have you seen that one? It’s the 2001 film dealing with the Cuban Missile Crisis, the thirteen days in October when the world stood at the brink of yet another war, one with possible Nuclear consequences. Just how factual the movie is when giving us, the ordinary person, a glimpse of the crisis from “behind the scenes”, I haven’t a clue. What I can tell you is that the fear I felt back then was very real. It is a fear etched in my mind that has remained all these years later.

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