I was in the 5th grade during the Kennedy missile crisis. And they gave us the obligatory duck and lecture. Part of the lecture consisted of informing us that glass walled building we were in offered virtually no protection from a thermonuclear event and we would all likely die anyway. At 9 years old it made a deep impressession on me, and my schoolmates. I don't think many of us really thought about people intentionally trying to kill us before.Frost wrote:My school had a basement classroom that was also a nuke shelter. It had enough crackers and peanut butter in there to keep many people alive until they died of nutritional deficiencies due to eating only crackers and peanut butter.
Glad i was born near the end of that madness, must have been a crazy time.
ETA: They also crammed the entire high school in there during tornado drills, but half the school had to walk past the library to get there and the hallway past the library was nothing but large glass windows on both sides.
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