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At Long Last! A Guest Book!

From the lens Thirteen Days in October: The Cuban Missile Crisis.

My apologies for taking so long to incorporate a guest book into this lens! Your comments are welcomed!

  • mihgasper Mar 5, 2012 @ 1:34 pm | delete
    Captivating lens. I was too young to know the seriousness of the crisis, but now I know we were very very close to the end...
  • JoyfulReviewer Mar 1, 2012 @ 5:28 pm | delete
    Amazing lens ... wonderfully informative with incredible photos and diagrams. Let's hope history does *not* repeat itself.
  • wordstock Feb 20, 2012 @ 9:41 pm | delete
    The women in their heels and shirtwaist dresses dragging children through the market fighting for water and food. The kids were quiet, not the usual babble and noise. I remember that when they tested the air-raid siren, most of the kids cried. We all expected to be vaporized and it was very scary. What did we learn? They can't scare me with terrorists, we have outgrown the fear. We have lived through it already. Great lens! Angel blessed.
  • LewesDE Feb 17, 2012 @ 12:27 pm | delete
    Great lens. I hope you make more of them!
  • senditondown Feb 12, 2012 @ 12:06 am | delete
    Excellent, informative. I remember having drills to go to the basement of our school which was designated as a nuclear fallout shelter.
  • ImpartialGreg Jan 30, 2012 @ 1:56 pm | delete
    I wish I had had access to this when I wrote my dissertation on international relations. Very informative lens! Thanks!
  • nyclittleitaly Jan 25, 2012 @ 12:25 am | delete
    Fantastic lens. I remember this like it was yesterday. Al America was on edge.
  • MyDestination Nov 8, 2011 @ 9:06 am | delete
    An excellent lens with really good informative content. I was glued reading it from top to bottom!
  • madinvestment Nov 4, 2011 @ 11:54 am | delete
    Fantastic lens. You put a lot of work into this.
  • tagsforkids Oct 4, 2011 @ 8:54 pm | delete
    A great lens! Although I was a pre-teen then, I was living in Miami, just a few hundred miles from Cuba. I didn't understand all of the politics at that time, but needless to say, it was discussion around the dinner table most nights. I can still remember the "drills" at school to be prepared in case of attack as well as testing of the air raid sirens. Thanks for all of the info.
  • dthonstad Jul 5, 2011 @ 11:48 am | delete
    Wow! Very thorough and great content. Loved the timeline in the beginning, the video of Kennedy addressing the nation, and the simulation. I am a history teacher and I will use this lens to help students better understand this crisis in world history/U.S. history. Thank you so much for your work!
  • notimetoulouse Jun 29, 2011 @ 7:15 am | delete
    I try hard to put good lenses together, and from now on I'm going to use this as my benchmark lens. A Squidoo potted history that leaves nothing out. A real labour of love. Thanks for letting us all benefit!
  • lawpost Jun 24, 2011 @ 3:05 pm | delete
    Amazing lense. I hope we have not forgotten the lessons learned during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
  • Michey Apr 10, 2011 @ 9:59 pm | delete
    This is a very informative lens, I learn a lot. For a person who wasn't born in the USA, this is a great history lessom.
  • tsp8ntball Apr 3, 2011 @ 3:25 am | delete
    Amazing. Definitely worth all the accolades.
  • Spook Mar 1, 2011 @ 2:33 pm | delete
    I can honestly see why this was a lens of the year. Fascinating stuff. Blessed by an Angel.
  • CruiseReady Feb 5, 2011 @ 1:41 am | delete
    Incredible lens.
    I willl never forget leaving for school that morning, Mom and I saw through the fog what appeared to be a mountain that grown had at the end of our street overight. (Our street ended in the Atlantic) It was a warship, on the way to blockade Cuba. That made it awfully and suddenly very real for us.
  • cwimmer77 Dec 17, 2010 @ 9:45 am | delete
    lets hope we never have to worry about an event like this again in our lifetimes.
  • MarkUpshaw Nov 11, 2010 @ 1:54 am | delete
    What an excellent lens. Thumbs up and FB like.
  • ViolinStudent Sep 30, 2010 @ 12:56 pm | delete
    Thanks for the work and the info. I turned 8 less than a week before the crisis came to light. I remember the Missile Crisis very well, even though I was a child. I will say, though, that even as a young elementary school student I wondered what kneeling down and covering my neck would do other than make me harder to find when the walls fell down on me. Scary time.
  • PizmoBeach Sep 29, 2010 @ 5:27 pm | delete
    An excellent lens. I have recently read Bobby Kennedy's account so it was fantastic to stumble upon your lens which has a great analysis of the crisi.
  • businesspropose Mar 27, 2010 @ 3:39 am | delete
    Why I will not thanks you for this nice lens? Really a good job done. With Cuban Missile. Let us hate war, Let us pray for us. Let us wish peace and happiness.

    All the best.
  • admnproposal Mar 26, 2010 @ 1:17 am | delete
    Nice lens. All of your picture are looking good. Most useful information you have add on your lens. I right back on your lens.
    Thanks for sharing such like helpful lens.
  • landocaly Mar 25, 2009 @ 8:17 pm | delete
    Incredible lens. Even though I'm true-blue American, I have to look at this from the Soviet perspective. The U.S. already had their missles on the Soviets doorstep. The Soviets were simply trying to match that, from where I stand. The resolution was needed from both sides.

    Tony
    charter-a-private-jet.net
  • elementalist Mar 10, 2009 @ 10:39 am | delete
    Thank you for an amazing lens. As an eight year old at the time of the crisis, I had nightmares of all manner of warplanes--fighters, bombers, jets, prop-driven, etc--all moving from one horizon to the other, until the sky was filled with them continually, engines droning, all moving in one direction, with a terrible and unimaginable goal ahead of them...World War. The terror I felt was incredibly intense. I'll never forget that time in history. This lens truly reveals the nature and the emotional intensity of the Cold War for many of us who experienced it.
  • SemperFidelis Dec 20, 2008 @ 10:16 pm | delete
    This is one of the Squidoo great lenses. I remember looking to this lens for design ideas when I first started in Squidoo. Nice! ~ Colleen :)
  • poutine Dec 3, 2008 @ 7:27 am | delete
    Well deserved Lens Of The Year.

    I rate it a 10

    I learned so much on that period by reading your lens today.
    I was 16 yers old when this happened and I was very anxious about
    the whole situation.
  • JoeTedesco Dec 2, 2008 @ 7:48 am | delete
    To give you another attboy at this point would be redundant I suppose, but this lens is outstanding. I spent a year at Guantanamo while in the Marines in 86 and spent much of it thinking of those 13 days. Of course, I was also very busy digging new bunkers and finding old land mines. http://www.squidoo.com/rms-titanic
  • OhMe Nov 9, 2008 @ 5:43 am | delete
    You sure deserved Lens of the Year last year. This is an amazing piece of work and very interesting. I sure remember that day.
  • dannystaple Oct 13, 2008 @ 2:50 pm | delete
    Amazing lens - the depth of this content is brilliant. Well written, well researched. 5*!
  • Jul 10, 2008 @ 7:47 am | delete
    Hi,
    I love your lens. Given you the 118th 5-star.
    Check out my 1st lens "Weight Loss and Back Pain".
    Thank you.
  • hearthealth Jun 12, 2008 @ 1:18 am | delete
    5 * for the excellent pix and the stories. I actually have some foreign policy readings to digest on this exact topic, now I feel like Jack Ryan from some Tom Clancy book, hehe! Faved too.
    Hope to see you in my dime lens!
  • LaraineRose Jun 11, 2008 @ 1:49 am | delete
    Read every word. You have made a very, very good lens. I am not surprised it was deemed Lens of the Year. As you say, this subject is very relevant even today. I am a firm believer in being forwarned is to be forarmed. 5 stars, favorite, fan and lensrolled to my Famine lens.
  • d-artist Jun 1, 2008 @ 7:22 am | delete
    fascinating lens! "I remember that day well" I was so scared, took off of work and hid in my home, prepared to die. I had been in the US only 12 yrs getting away from a war, yet we still had to fear the Russians(Cuba), even here in America..I pray none of us will ever have to experience a fear like that again...Thank God it turned out okay...so far...we have it so good here in the USA. 5*s
  • LDWorld May 22, 2008 @ 4:02 pm | delete
    Congratulations on making TOP 100!
    By the way in Russia we got very different story :)
  • May 18, 2008 @ 9:19 am | delete
    Hi, you have great and very informative lens. 5 stars of course.
  • CleanFace May 17, 2008 @ 12:35 am | delete
    Nice pictures and useful information. thanks! 5 stars.
  • miragana May 13, 2008 @ 9:56 am | delete
    Thank you for letting peep at your lens. It is very informative. I like it, I hope you included some pictures in Cuba that signifies the threat of the missile crisis. Like the photo of some of Cuba's missile silo, but still I admire the entire content of your lens I'm planning to make my own. The topic is about the Holocaust.
  • WrinkleCreamSpecialist May 11, 2008 @ 8:03 pm | delete
    Wikipedia could take an example ! I gotta say, I hate war and all that belongs to it. Why make war, when we can all be together. Great source of one of the most important historical facts and happenings. Thank you for making this. Elise. (High five for all of your hard work on this!)
  • mulberry May 1, 2008 @ 7:12 pm | delete
    Superb! It was engrossing to read, very valuable information.
  • Americanese Apr 25, 2008 @ 10:41 pm | delete
    Hey thanks so much man, I actually have a research project on this and this helped a TON. I owe you man.
  • KimGiancaterino Apr 14, 2008 @ 12:58 pm | delete
    Hey, a guestbook... prepare to be bombarded with praise (and Angel Blessings). This lens is exceptional!
  • bdkz Apr 13, 2008 @ 1:15 pm | delete
    This is an amzing lens! 5 Stars and a Squid Angel Blessing!
  • dwhuff Mar 18, 2008 @ 8:03 pm | delete
    As a history buff I wanted to commend you on your excellent lens. Filled with factual evidence and very complete. Great attention to detail. This lens deserves to be the lense of the year. Congrats!
  • CleanFace Mar 18, 2008 @ 10:18 am | delete
    Great lens, I enjoy staying with you. BOOKMARKED!
  • personaltraininglondon Mar 12, 2008 @ 4:18 pm | delete
    Lens of the year, well done, very well layed out.
    Like the guy said earlier, there is a lot of history for the younger generation to get through here. If they start to learn to read that is!
  • Feb 18, 2008 @ 1:49 am | delete
    Informative lens and enables the later generations to know about 1962 Cuba missile crisis.
  • FoxMusic Feb 14, 2008 @ 7:35 am | delete
    Congrats on Lens of the Year!!
    Thanks for this very informative lens,
    the kind of stuff you never hear in
    a history lesson.
  • Feb 14, 2008 @ 1:11 am | delete
    Thank you for a great lens!Really informative about most dangerous two week in history.
  • Feb 14, 2008 @ 1:10 am | delete
    Informative lens, it recall the past memories of 1962 crisis.
  • thomasz Feb 14, 2008 @ 12:12 am | delete
    Wow really great lens. Come visit my lenses.
  • LeslieBrenner Jan 30, 2008 @ 8:34 pm | delete
    Wow, this is an amazing lens! Gave you 5 stars. Congratulations on winning LoTD!
  • hughmac Jan 29, 2008 @ 12:59 pm | delete
    great lens, it brought back memories of listening to the events unfolding through an old radio which was all we had at the time. This lent an even more sombre tone to the doomsday scenario that was unfolding thousands of miles away from little old Ireland.
  • Aika Jan 24, 2008 @ 9:42 am | delete
    Interesting lens! Really inspirational and useful too. Great Job! :)
  • tech_writer Jan 14, 2008 @ 11:05 am | delete
    Hello.. Really great lens. Although really I thought the U.S. made a big fuss about the Cuban Missile crisis given that they also have missiles in Turkey which is more or less closer to U.S.S.R. I think U.S. wet their pants when they felt vulnerable.
  • gitterdone Jan 8, 2008 @ 12:03 pm | delete
    I was only 5 years old when this happened and had no interest in the world outside of my yard at the time. But I do remember when this happened! The effect of this went that deep into the psyche of every American at that time. I find that amazing! Congrats on being recognized for your lens!
  • JoeTedesco Jan 1, 2008 @ 9:54 am | delete
    Simply amazing. Content galore.
  • finale Dec 20, 2007 @ 1:10 pm | delete
    Very much enjoyed this lens! Now I know what a great lens can be.
  • Carennedy Dec 19, 2007 @ 7:05 pm | delete
    WOW this is an amazing example of what makes a great lens.
  • elchocador Dec 16, 2007 @ 7:39 pm | delete
    Being born in 72' and missing all this, I cannot help but think of how tense the world must have been. What a president JFK was.
  • WeightLossPillsExpert Dec 15, 2007 @ 9:15 am | delete
    What in the world! I'm seriously impressed at the time you must have spent on this lens! I've not seen anyone dedicate that much info on one lens in my entire life so far.. and it's been long, Great job!
  • Terrax Dec 9, 2007 @ 3:53 pm | delete
    Great lens! Kudos!
  • Dec 4, 2007 @ 12:47 am | delete
    Great job!!!

    Drop by my lens:

    Heroic Animals
  • GreatDay2BeAlive Dec 3, 2007 @ 6:14 pm | delete
    OMG, thats a lot of info and kind of overwhelming to an 11 year old. I'll definately come back here if I need to research a paper for school.

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