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vlyons

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3. I well remember crawling under my desk in grade school.
Fri Oct 14, 2016, 09:18 AM
Oct 2016

Then some genius decided that crouching in the hallway was better to get away from the windows. They taught us to place one arm underneath our head to cover our eyes, and one arm over the back of neck. I also remember my parents taking us kids out to this showcase of fallout shelters. There were pictures and displays of what the people, who survived Hiroshima looked like afterwards. My parents actually considered planting one in the back yard, bet decided they were too expensive. We kids thought they would make really cool club houses. Stocked with tins of food, water cans, sleeping bunks, etc. Only thing is, who would want to survive? Better to get vaporized.

But I understand how easy it is to fear-monger people. Hitler knew this too.

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