(((((((Maggie))))))))
The younger ones here cannot appreciate that in leaving Rapid City with our babies and dogs, we would be Surviving in every sense of the word.
Our husbands guarded the B-52's, and never would have left the base alive, if war began. We were literally on our own, a continent away from any family. To stay in town with the populace stealng and looting at will, taking our food and supplies, we woud have perished there for certain. The city was loaded with Communist sympathizers, according to Intelligence, and even decent people steal when hungry; foodstuffs dwindling and delivery halted.
My plan was to go directly to a summer cabin area of Silver City, in the winter not inhabited, about 40 miles northwest, as I recall. Susan would have kept house - I would have hunted and fished and trapped and chopped firewood. If things worked well, we would have lasted until our military stumbled upon us. We knew the base maintained somewhere in the mountains a two-year food supply, and God willing, we might have made it alive.
So many Americans take for granted their peace and comfort levels.....we did not have that luxury in the 'Cold' War.