When I was in grade school in the late 1950’s we had nuclear bomb drills where we hid under school desks. It didn’t traumatize anyone that I am aware of. Kids are resilient; liberals not so much.
That’s a good point.
But no one was blowing off M-80s in the courtyard while you were ducking and covering. Which is the point here.
And I’ve always wondered what good a desk would be against a bomb (yeah, I lived thru those drills)
We kind of enjoyed them. Means we didn’t really have to pay too much attention and could “goof off” a bit. I am not aware of anyone who seriously spent a lot of time worrying about getting ‘nuked’. We had more important matters to worry about.
Taught you to hate those damn Russians though, didn't it?
“It didn’t traumatize anyone that I am aware of.”
Those drills were to fill a checkmark box. If school desks were actually a deterrent it would have meant something. But it was a way to promote confidence in their situation and the teaching staff rather than a real threat defender. So it wouldn’t be a big deal because the students didn’t actually understand the reality of the pain and destruction. Nothing ever fell and it became a game.
wy69
My boomer elders may not have been "traumatized," but when the subject comes up they still kvetch about those drills. They were never told it was just a drill...and NYC was a plausible target.
Yes, but the issue is not practicing, it is practicing with a simulated live-fire event (i.e, masked armed actors portraying gunmen running around campus). If you had to practice a live-fire nuclear bomb drill, I am sure that would have traumatized you. (Hey Bob, where are we supposed to set off the tactical nuke so the kiddos can practice how they would act if someone who didn’t like us did that?)