I was in my 30’s. I grew up in the Cold War. Yeah, “Duck & Cover”, Civil Defence Drills, and studying Rads in hs physics classes.... the whole works. That was “life”. No way out.
If someone had told me, in grade school, in my teens, or, hell, 20’s, that the USSR would end the way that it did; I would have laughed at them.
GHWB and Reagan played that hand as good as it could have been played.
LOL. Noobs latch on to his “New World Order” line and whine mainly because they are too young to understand that it was a necessary and welcome alternatve to the “Old World Order” that really, really, sucked.
Duck and cover drills had a special urgency during the Cuban Missile crisis, on a Marine Corps airbase in the south east...