I was. I was really young.

It was nothing like it is today. You had 3 television stations, in black and white, and the news wasn't on all day long.

There was no internet, no cnn or msnbc or fox. The national news came on at around 7pm, so you would have to wait all day to find out if we were going to war with Russia. Sometimes they would break in with a special report, but that wouldn't happen too often

I remember my mother telling me if I heard the air raid warning siren coming from the TV to let her know.

I do remember being really scared. Mainly because my parents were worried.