Cuban Missile Crisis

October 22, 1962 - The White House: Today President John F. Kennedy ordered the U. S. Navy to establish a Blockade of Cuba. After U-2 Intelligence gathering flights confirmed that the USSR and Cuba were establishing a network of Missiles in Cuba and several days of diplomacy President Kennedy ordered a Naval Blockade of Cuba.

As the free world considered the impact of a Nuclear War the Blockade was successful. This entire series of events later became known as "The Fourteen Days of October." For additional information and a time line of this historic event please visit:

http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/nsa/cuba_mis_cri/

Which certainly proves once more that mantra "Power For Peace," was certainly the case during the famous "Fourteen Days of October" in 1962. Flower Child was aboard the great Aircraft Carrier, USS RANGER (CVA-61) on the West Coast of the United States of America. You can be certain that we were ready to do our part, yet hoping that the Blockade would be Successful.