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Laura PourMeADrink

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63. Means he had a big heart,! Probably why you do. Hope no has to
Thu Jul 7, 2022, 01:52 AM
Jul 2022

experience what he, & you & your family went through. Just going to imagine that there's never war again

What did you worry about as a kid? [View all] Laura PourMeADrink Jul 2022 OP
USSR and nuclear war... Some things haven't changed. hlthe2b Jul 2022 #1
Did you actually understand that ? For me it was Laura PourMeADrink Jul 2022 #6
Just the emotional sense of fear when adults spoke about it... hlthe2b Jul 2022 #9
I was terrified. I kept a scrapbook moonscape Jul 2022 #42
Sonic boom from... 3catwoman3 Jul 2022 #48
Cool but no. This is more like a small plane dropping a bomb Laura PourMeADrink Jul 2022 #54
The only nightmare I remember was about sirens going off and then the bright light and I woke up . Srkdqltr Jul 2022 #17
Same here. crickets Jul 2022 #28
I had a similar dream when I was young Ouroborosnek Jul 2022 #31
It sounds like a lot of us did. crickets Jul 2022 #34
Do you remember the sound of planes whistling Laura PourMeADrink Jul 2022 #53
I do remember that sound, but only from movies. crickets Jul 2022 #84
I was convinced as a teen in the early seventies that the world had no future pecosbob Jul 2022 #72
Yes, especially after reading Pat Frank's "Alas, Babylon" csziggy Jul 2022 #92
Yes, I grew up 35 miles from Chicago and feared it as a nuclear target Model35mech Jul 2022 #98
Nuclear war, total destruction of the world. Ocelot II Jul 2022 #2
Getting Nuked. onecaliberal Jul 2022 #3
School bombings, getting pregnant, nuclear war uppityperson Jul 2022 #4
Whether I would again, today, get an ass beating from my father. Ferrets are Cool Jul 2022 #5
We were lucky...just him " touching the belt"was enough Laura PourMeADrink Jul 2022 #10
No doubts here. It was because we were very poor. Ferrets are Cool Jul 2022 #80
Same here. llmart Jul 2022 #100
Monsters under the bed...when I was really young, the dark. PortTack Jul 2022 #7
Quicksand and shark attacks Arazi Jul 2022 #8
Do you remember what you would would have done? Laura PourMeADrink Jul 2022 #12
Lol. I still have nightmares every so often about quicksand. chowder66 Jul 2022 #49
Came here to say quicksand! ok_cpu Jul 2022 #90
Quicksand phobias were from those goddamn Tarzan movies. Greybnk48 Jul 2022 #104
Martians Cartoonist Jul 2022 #11
Or just the fear/awe of what could be out there ? Laura PourMeADrink Jul 2022 #14
We didn't have school shootings back then. nt Cartoonist Jul 2022 #86
I was a very small child. Mr.Bill Jul 2022 #13
Oh wow that must have been horrible to think about Laura PourMeADrink Jul 2022 #22
It had it's upside. Mr.Bill Jul 2022 #25
Funny how parents were willing accomplices. That Laura PourMeADrink Jul 2022 #58
We weren't rich. Mr.Bill Jul 2022 #61
I'm jealous. I was also the smallest kid but jg10003 Jul 2022 #73
Well, at age 69, Mr.Bill Jul 2022 #85
War NowISeetheLight Jul 2022 #15
Nada. Was born during WWll. Afterwards was a golden age, marybourg Jul 2022 #16
Nuclear war was far and away the #1 worry. TheBeam19 Jul 2022 #18
My mother dying. pnwmom Jul 2022 #19
So sorry. You had to worry about that pnwmom!!!! Laura PourMeADrink Jul 2022 #26
Thanks. I was the typical oldest child in a lot of ways, pnwmom Jul 2022 #27
This message was self-deleted by its author Laura PourMeADrink Jul 2022 #37
That is a very problematic thing for a parent to worry a child about. alphafemale Jul 2022 #65
surviving in the ice world brought about by nuclear winter eShirl Jul 2022 #20
Holy cow... You were SO much more aware and enlightened. Laura PourMeADrink Jul 2022 #24
I worried about not getting caught by my parents. LakeArenal Jul 2022 #21
Have you figured out why you were so fearful? Of punishment? Laura PourMeADrink Jul 2022 #33
The solar system hurtling towards the Hercules constellation Tom Kitten Jul 2022 #23
Oh, I loved those movies! crickets Jul 2022 #32
I loved Them too Tom Kitten Jul 2022 #101
I had a nightmare of a skinny pumpkin headed man. Ran to my parents. applegrove Jul 2022 #29
Do you like or hate pumpkins now.? Think it's interesting that Laura PourMeADrink Jul 2022 #35
All I can think of was a piece of art my parents had in the den. It was a musician playing a guitar applegrove Jul 2022 #43
So interesting and funny! Can't imagine having a mom Laura PourMeADrink Jul 2022 #45
She was a family doctor. We were not allowed margarine in the house applegrove Jul 2022 #46
Oh wow. But you reminded me of what we used to Laura PourMeADrink Jul 2022 #55
We were square heads. Nobody tried to trick there way out of school. applegrove Jul 2022 #62
I've heard even rats won't eat margarine. alphafemale Jul 2022 #79
Nuclear destruction, drop drills in school made it very real Raine Jul 2022 #30
You must have been SO much more enlightened than I was Laura PourMeADrink Jul 2022 #41
My dad was a pilot in the USAF. I had alot to worry about. LeftInTX Jul 2022 #36
Hear you. Saddest day of my life was at the Vietnam Memorial Laura PourMeADrink Jul 2022 #39
Yes, but he came back weird LeftInTX Jul 2022 #56
Means he had a big heart,! Probably why you do. Hope no has to Laura PourMeADrink Jul 2022 #63
Nuclear War peggysue2 Jul 2022 #38
Socializing in school. Not guns, but the normal part of school mvd Jul 2022 #40
Remember when the world stopped when there was Laura PourMeADrink Jul 2022 #50
Step on a crack, break your mother's back. Chellee Jul 2022 #44
Wonder if kids today still have crazy thoughts. Probably yes! Laura PourMeADrink Jul 2022 #47
How fast summer vacation started. William769 Jul 2022 #51
Polio... The family doctor had an iron lung in a back room at his office... ultralite001 Jul 2022 #52
I worried about my mother getting sick gopiscrap Jul 2022 #57
Wow. So sorry! I didn't mean to bring up bad memories Laura PourMeADrink Jul 2022 #60
I remember being about 6 and waking up in the middle of the night TlalocW Jul 2022 #59
This message was self-deleted by its author darmok167 Jul 2022 #64
Nuclear war. Looking back, we were so very close in time to WW II that it colored everything... Hekate Jul 2022 #66
Them! frogmarch Jul 2022 #67
scariest movie ever. jg10003 Jul 2022 #74
Getting trapped in a car underwater MandelaObama Jul 2022 #68
Nuclear war, my Mom's severe asthma electric_blue68 Jul 2022 #69
I work with kids jcgoldie Jul 2022 #70
Serial killers was a big one. betsuni Jul 2022 #71
Vietnam War Emile Jul 2022 #75
I use to Dorian Gray Jul 2022 #76
Nuclear war. Nt raccoon Jul 2022 #77
I worried about a lot when I was a kid Skittles Jul 2022 #78
Nuclear war. I had dreams, as a child of MineralMan Jul 2022 #81
As a young kid, nuclear annihilation, as a teen it was AIDS SYFROYH Jul 2022 #82
My worries were more immediate than nuclear war. Chainfire Jul 2022 #83
Being vaporized by an atom bomb. Greybnk48 Jul 2022 #87
During the first gulf war, Elessar Zappa Jul 2022 #88
My Parents RobinA Jul 2022 #89
"And a first lady that uses the F word in the same sentence as Christmas!?" Polybius Jul 2022 #91
It was Melania caught complaining about her Christmas decorating duties. Gidney N Cloyd Jul 2022 #93
How'd ya miss it? . Melania on tape. Excerpt: Laura PourMeADrink Jul 2022 #96
I am not given to nightmares. For me, they're rare. Playhouse 90's Alas Babylon gave them to me . . Stinky The Clown Jul 2022 #94
Nuclear war. highplainsdem Jul 2022 #95
My Dad having to go (back) to war. 11 Bravo Jul 2022 #97
Mine is weird - my fertility womanofthehills Jul 2022 #99
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Nuclear war JustAnotherGen Jul 2022 #105
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