Calling all DUers who were children in the 50's and 60's..your expertise is needed

[RKP5637]

45. In my early youth I was afraid of Germany, then later the cold war. We used to

either go under the desk with hands over our heads in a braced position or in the halls, on the hall floor, in a braced position, always being told to keep our eyes closed and to not look at the bright light of an explosion. Building air raid shelters in back yards was vogue for some.

I grew up near a major munitions plant, a very large DOD facility and a major shipping port. We were a target for sure. They also built aircraft carriers, etc. down the way.

Even as a little kid, I used to wonder WTF, because I had seen films at the movies what areas looked like after an atomic bomb blast.

My parents house had an air raid siren on the telephone pole down the street. Every Saturday at 12 noon, it was supposed to sound, but it never worked, all one heard was a telephone on the same pole ring. Someone must have hooked it up wrong. Our school had the yellow shelter signs posted all over it. Thinking back, it was pretty freaky and frightening. ... but as kids it just seemed the thing to do, we were born into it.

All of this crap going on with Putin reminds me of those years, and he reminds me of the leaders of those years. To me, it's like history is starting to repeat, and those were not pleasant years. I also recall us having to have blankets on all of the windows in the house at night so our towns could not be seen from air. My sister was also part of the civilian air patrol and used to watch for airplanes in the sky on weekends.

The movie intermissions were always filled with status on the front and later what the communists were up to and all.