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Wicked Blue

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9. All we worried about as kids in the early 1960s was being nuked by Russia

Reply to Stargazer99 (Original post)

Thu Aug 28, 2025, 10:42 AM

Aug 2025

Our regular preparedness drills consisted of crawling under our desks or lining up and being led to the school's innermost hallways, where we sat and covered our heads with our arms. We were told over and over again that if we heard an explosion, we must NOT LOOK, or we could go blind.

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