Talk:Cuban Missile Crisis

I was onboard a US destroyer in 1961. We pulled up within fifty (50) feet of Soviet cargo ships with missiles tied down on deck. Missiles are so big you can't load them inside a cargo ship. On some we could see the Russian captain's knees knocking. It was a lie that missiles were suddenly discovered in Cuba by U2's. It was known at least a year before then. The missiles were unloaded in downtown Havana. Don't tell me that in a city as large as Havana there wasn't someone who told the CIA. The reserves were called in. The American public and the world were told it was the Second Berlin Crisis. There were so many troops in Florida it was hard to hide the fact that we were getting ready to invade Cuba. There were so many Marines on Key West that the island was about to sink. <g> They were even pitching their tents out on the runways and in residential areas. A discussion of this event is not complete without mentioning the horrible statesmanship used by President Kennedy. It is called "Brinksmanship." You don't draw a line in the sand and say, "Don't cross this line or we will be at war." Kennedy should have used diplomacy. We are all indebted to Mr. Khrushchev that we are still alive today. Kennedy and his snotty nose little brother could have caused WWIII.

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I moved this article to the uppercase since the capitalization convention reads: "Unless the term you wish to create a page for is a proper noun or is otherwise almost always capitalized, do not capitalize second and subsequent words." For whatever reasons, this crisis is almost always capitalized, so I've done the same here. —Minesweeper 22:25, Dec 5, 2003 (UTC)