Remember Hiding Under Desks In School And "Duck & Cover"?

[KittyWampus]

I was born in 62, so I remember very well. Don't remember Kennedy getting shot. So remember school drills where we all had to hide under our desks.

Sirens Blare as Japan, Fearing North Korea, Holds First Missile Drill

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141730533

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[shraby]

1. What was even more ridiculous is they had an evacuation plan for NYC. Even as a kid

in high school I could see they couldn't evacuate NYC. Much less in timely manner which would have had to be hours.
I was lucky, we lived in rural northern Michigan and we had no duck and cover drills, just fire drills in the old 2 story school we had.

[lame54]

2. now the kids that you find under the desk are...

lying there curled up from hunger

[woodsprite]

3. Or dodging bullets. n/t

[jpak]

4. We did it in kindergarten and 1st grade

And I was terrified during the Cuban Missile Crisis.

We all knew what nukes were and what they did.

[ProfessorGAC]

8. We Must Be Around The Same Age

I was in 2nd grade for the CMC. I recall memorizing where i saw those fallout shelter signs at the stores my parents use to take me to for shopping. Of course, at that age, i probably thought living underground would be cool, but now i think "What the heck were we thinking? Surviving all out nuclear war?"

[csziggy]

5. We lived in Central Florida so everyone was panicked during the Cuban Missile Crisis

My Dad made plans to evacuate us to my grandmother's house which had a half basement facing a lake. I already knew at the age of 10 that was useless - the slope of the land faced west, directly towards Tampa where MacDill AFB was. MacDill would have been a primary target if the nukes had flown and the blast wave and fallout would have come right at us.

At that time there was a base in Orlando to the northeast so we would have caught fallout from both directions. I figured that it would be better to get hit bad enough to kill us rather than linger on with radiation, anarchy and chaos. I'd read Pat Frank's "Alas, Babylon" a post nuclear scifi novel set not far from where we lived. That and other scifi books about what could happen formed my opinions for at least two decades after that horrendous time of fear.

[LWolf]

6. We still do them.

It's not about bombs, but about earthquakes.

[maveric]

7. Born in 56 and remember those drills.

We were on the east coast and the Cuban Missle Crisis was going. We practiced every day.

[ProfessorGAC]

10. Me Too Mav

See post 8

[Greybnk48]

9. Born in 48,

and I remember those drills well.

[JTFrog]

11. I remember them well. In fact, was just talking about this with an anti-truth trumper.

I was explaining that having grown up in California during a time when we practiced hiding under our desks out of fear that the Soviet Union would launch a nuke or that mutually assured destruction launches would happen, I take this aggressive Russian shit pretty seriously.

Those who brush it off as if it were nothing need to do a little research.

And now the mad peepeedent is trying to provoke another country into launching nukes. I have family in Japan, so I'm seriously fucking pissed at this tweeting asshat right now.