09-07-2012, 05:11 PM
We lived right outside of Washington DC in Maryland from 1958 to 1966. My dad was still working for Eisenhower until he left office so he needed to be close to the WH. In school, we had regularly scheduled "air raid" drills each week, but never on the same day of the week. It was random. There would be very loud public sirens that would blast from all over the city at the same time and all of us would first "duck and cover" before being herded away to some area predetermined to be safe, I suppose. It was quite frightening because each drill was always treated as "the real deal" and the effect of alarm never was mitigated by our previous experience.
Apparently the teaching staff had been trained thoroughly in keeping the state of hyper-alarmism fresh in the minds of school children. Yet, in the 3 years I attended schools in the DC/Maryland area never was I-- nor were my fellow students--so scared as we were on the afternoon of November 22nd, 1963.
And there wasn't even an air raid siren alarm sounding off...
Apparently the teaching staff had been trained thoroughly in keeping the state of hyper-alarmism fresh in the minds of school children. Yet, in the 3 years I attended schools in the DC/Maryland area never was I-- nor were my fellow students--so scared as we were on the afternoon of November 22nd, 1963.
And there wasn't even an air raid siren alarm sounding off...
GO_SECURE
monk
"It is difficult to abolish prejudice in those bereft of ideas. The more hatred is superficial, the more it runs deep."
James Hepburn -- Farewell America (1968)
monk
"It is difficult to abolish prejudice in those bereft of ideas. The more hatred is superficial, the more it runs deep."
James Hepburn -- Farewell America (1968)