I don’t remember myself, nor any of my classmates, crying to anybody during duck-and-cover drills.
***crying to anybody during duck-and-cover drills.***
I don’t remember any of those drills in my early schooling. Our assemblies was to warn us of stray BLASTING CAPS!
Only later were we given “duck and cover” training in small rural or mining towns. Nearest towns that would have “got it” were Roswell NM, White Sands, El Paso, Clovis, Albuquerque.
“I don’t remember myself, nor any of my classmates, crying to anybody during duck-and-cover drills.”
I loved those and fire drills-got us out of classwork.
I don’t remember myself, nor any of my classmates, crying to anybody during duck-and-cover drills.
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I heard someone today say that this is the worst government misinformation program in the history of the world.
I DISAGREE.
The worst was when they tried to convince US that hiding under the open desk was the way to withstand a nuclear attack.
I do remember pictures & ‘stories’ from the days of the 1946 A Blasts where the sailors on the ships observing the blasts were told to button their cuffs and collars and turn their back to the explosion.
I went to USN boot camp in 1956 and it took my FIRST ABC indoctrination class to completely swear off believing ANYTHING an ‘adult’ tried to tell me.
FWIW it is worth in 1957 I went aboard one of the ships that was an ‘observer’ in 1946 and in 1960 went aboard another ship that took part in the 1954 tests,
I have not knowingly suffered any ill effects but it is hard to believe that BOTH those ships were ‘decontaminated’ completely...especially after the ‘asbestos scare’ hit.
I say ‘scare’ because when the regulations started kicking in, it was costing more to ‘deasbestos’ a building than tearing it down and putting up the new one.
Notice how that ‘went away’ swiftly when the prices went out of control.
I don’t remember myself, nor any of my classmates, crying to anybody during duck-and-cover drills.
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I heard someone today say that this is the worst government misinformation program in the history of the world.
I DISAGREE.
The worst was when they tried to convince US that hiding under the open desk was the way to withstand a nuclear attack.
I do remember pictures & ‘stories’ from the days of the 1946 A Blasts where the sailors on the ships observing the blasts were told to button their cuffs and collars and turn their back to the explosion.
I went to USN boot camp in 1956 and it took my FIRST ABC indoctrination class to completely swear off believing ANYTHING an ‘adult’ tried to tell me.
FWIW it is worth in 1957 I went aboard one of the ships that was an ‘observer’ in 1946 and in 1960 went aboard another ship that took part in the 1954 tests,
I have not knowingly suffered any ill effects but it is hard to believe that BOTH those ships were ‘decontaminated’ completely...especially after the ‘asbestos scare’ hit.
I say ‘scare’ because when the regulations started kicking in, it was costing more to ‘deasbestos’ a building than tearing it down and putting up the new one.
Notice how that ‘went away’ swiftly when the prices went out of control.