Don’t kid yourself, there were abductions too. I had a friend “disappear” in the ‘60s. I have no doubt there were others.
Yes, we got hurt, but that taught us to avoid that kind of activity. Through my years in school, there was at least one, and as many as six kids died during the school year, EVERY YEAR, some during school activities. I went to relatively small (the biggest was 950 students) schools
The press is the biggest reason for the fear. Because there are many more people, more events occur. The press blows every one of these events into the greatest crisis the human race has ever faced.
That you don’t see the artificial hysteria is a testament to the effectiveness of the propaganda.
There were something like three disappearances in my town in the late sixties early seventies but they were all teenage girls.
Jeez, dude, where'd you go to school? Viet Nam?
All my school years there was only one death. Happened to be a friend of mine.