"an old friend" wrote

and assuming you were on the blockade line (I don't know
but will give you the benifit of the doubt) that would be the
last place to learn of such things

I don't need any "benifit" of your doubt, especially since you weren't even a
gleam in your daddy's eye yet. I was a Navy Radioman on the communications
staff of the admiral in command of the blockade. In direct communications with
Office of POTUS we knew, almost minute-by-minute, what was happening and the
rationale behind it. None of the movie-makers were there, though. Whatever you
learned at "4 or 5 years old" is a faint and distorted image of real life.

Beep beep
de Hans, K0HB