OK - how many of you actually DID the "Duck and Cover Drill" in school?

[nolabear]

125. Not only that, I lived on a SAC base during the crisis and we had alerts.

Out of nowhere a siren would go off, all the fathers (Air Force) would disappear and the planes would take off. No one knew if it was real or a drill until they were well in the air and at some point the phone would ring and we'd have an "all clear." I was in the first, second and third grades and have a child's memory of the mothers all hanging together and smoking cigarettes and worrying, and those duck and cover drills (and that stupid damned turtle in the film). I was nearly forty before I realized why I had repetitive nightmares as a child that involved a phone ringing and a terrifyingly loud siren sound coming out of it when it was answered.

I try to draw strength from the fact we survived all that, but then we didn't have the idiot-in-chief we have now.