[SamuraiScot]

Kids in schools were having nuclear strike drills. It made it very real and quite unsettling for kids.

Gotta say, I did the duck-and-cover thing under the desk in First Grade and maybe the next year as well. It just never bothered me. It was just more school-rules and rigamarole.

I absolutely knew what it was about, because they told us. It seemed appropriate enough. Life goes on. Since we still got to play softball and bombardment at recess, it was all good.

[DoughtyOne]

I could tell some of my fellow classmates were pretty upset
about the whole thing. I felt more like you seem to have.

I know some of the anti-nuke folks came from this set of
children who had grown up.

It’s always seemed to me some of those kids couldn’t handle
it too well.