I was 9 yrs old in 1962. I remember President Kennedy's speech on Cuba. My parents started to build a small shelter in the basement of our house. We lived about 15+/- miles from Philadelphia, Pa.
The worst never happened, of course. Which is for the best, the shelter was never more than 30 - 50 % complete. (Depends on definition of complete
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But we always maintained about two - three weeks of canned food at all times.
SO I didn't need TMP or T2K to help me on the way to prepairedness. I was corrupted (?) at an early age.
Mike