Cuban missile crisis was close to home for me

I think it’s great that the United States is starting to thaw relations with the last country from the Cold War, Cuba.

It has been a long strange journey since the late 1950s. Since Fidel Castro and his brother Raúl have ruled Cuba, there have been 11 US Presidents.

I grew up in America and spent the early 1960s as a young kid, living in fear of the missiles supplied by Russia that were only 90 miles from the US. During the Cuban crisis instead of looking at buying a new family car, our family was looking at buying an underground bomb shelter. There was fear that the end was near.

My mom and dad decided not to buy a bomb shelter but instead bought a trampoline. My mom thought if the world were to end, we might as well have fun.

Kevin Devitte

Mill Street

Westport

Co Mayo