Yes. The Russian convoy carrying the nuclear missiles are nearing Cuba, and Kennedy has sent the U.S. Navy to stop those vessels, at all cost. If the deadly cargo reaches the Cuban ports, then a quick death for American cities up and down the coast will be possible.

The children, of which I am one, will no longer have an ocean or polar ice cap’s distance to protect them. Seconds to Miami, minutes to Atlanta, not even an hour to Portsmouth or DC.

And hours from world chaos, our Navy stops the convoy and Russia, thinks, and decides to back down, because the cost to “all of us,” Russia, the United States, all the NATO countries, and the rest of the world walks away to live another day.

— And now about 66 years later we are pretty damned close to as powerful a moment as they experienced then. We might not have been here if cooler heads had failed then. — The United States must never fail to honor it’s long standing commitments to the countries of NATO, our allies. We are their defender. We must be their defender. And no amount of money can pay the price for us betraying their trust in us. We either protect them unabashedly, or step over that line that makes us, the United States of America just another bad guy.

Whether it was actually 66 years ago or not, give or take a year, The important emphasis to those numbers is that we do not add the final number to it. That last digit must never be another “6.”