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30. Yeah, the 80s brought a lot of post apocalyptic stuff into the culture

Maybe because people my age were then out there writing and creating those visions they feared as kids and young adults.

I lived in Central Florida, so if the Cuban Missile Crisis had started a war, there would not have been a good chance of survival. With McDill in Tampa and the base that was in Orlando at the time, we would have been in the middle of the action. About that time, I read Pat Frank's "Alas Babylon" about post atomic war survival in Central Florida not far from where we lived. That made me realize I would rather die than survive in the kind of world that would result from a nuclear war.

But that also makes me very unhappy when the powers that be try to use fear to control us these days. I'm now old and ornery and I don't see any reason to over react because a couple of dozen religious fanatics commit a very local and very limited action. I worried for much of my life about all out nuclear war and the horrendous after effects. Running into a couple of buildings is nothing compared to that fear.

We will all make it one way or another. Our lives may be very different than we envisioned, but we will make it. The fight is to make it with a clean conscience and happiness.