I was invited by a friend to go to see Dolly Parton in Vegas over 20 years ago; I wasn't a fan, but it was a free trip so I went, expecting to be bored/unimpressed. She blew my mind; a consummate musical genius who gave everything she had and more to the audience. She played every instrument the band was playing (or…

My dad was a young cartographer with the Army Corps of Engineers during this time, and he was stationed in Washington DC. He told me, many years after the fact, that his job was to make maps of those satellite images of Cuba. He recalls being quite terrified at the time.