“”Every morning just like clockwork the Cub Scouts raised the flag and the principal came out of his office and stood on the steps of the front porch and saluted the flag with the rest of us.””
Yes, we did that also. EVERYONE was proud and grateful. When the Olympics were happening, we made large displays and kept track of all the USA Gold.
“”no body ever gave a thought to the possibility of someone coming into the school and shooting any of us.””
In high school we had a gun club. Students would walk to school with their rifles (unloaded of course). I imagine any wacko crazy enough to consider shooting anyone witnessed all the guns and ran like a girlieman.
You know who tells the "best" story? The last one.
A lot of us carried a shotgun and / or rifle in season in a gun rack in the pickup along with a fishing rod. Never know when you may need any of them. Nobody ever thought a thing about it that I know of. My younger brother even traded pistols with one of his teachers keeping the gun in his locker and bringing it home on the bus.
Yeah, long ago and far away, then some of us went to Vietnam and I went to college, then it was over.
Before school started, we played on the playground. When the National Anthem came on over the loudspeaker, you had to stop and stand at attention.
Was caught talking once and had to write the first stanza of the National Anthem 100 times.
Never did that again.