Well, it was just such a-. First of all, we didn't all realize we had spies flying over Russia. At the time the Cold War was definitely on people's minds.
They were building bomb shelters. Civil Defense put out all kinds of movies and what have you, how to be prepared for a nuclear attack.
That was big in some people's minds. I never worried about it too much, I really didn't. I mean I didn't encourage my family to do a bomb shelter
or anything but I had contemporaries that did and I know they were stocking up food and all this. So I think for me the Gary Powers incident opened my eyes to the fact:
Well hey, we are out there spying on this world. And then I remember when the Cuban Missile Crisis happened that year also, and I can remember my dad coming home and saying,
"You better buy you a winter coat this year," and I said, "Why?" and he said, "Because we don't know what's going to happen," and he was thinking back to the Second World War,
how scarce so many things got, and thinking that there was a possibility that war was going to reach our shores. I just remember him telling me that, and it was like, oh. Okay. So that was the mindset then.