2007-10-21 15:30:01 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Senior Citizens
I remember the air raid drills when i was in grade school. We didn't understand what it meant but we loved getting out of class.
2007-10-23 15:22:23 · answer #1 · answered by Wrong number 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I remember the air raid drills from the fifties, but that is about it. Open all the windows and hide under your desks like that was going to stop a nuclear blast or something. They used to show us the old black and white film of the two story house being blown away just from the wind before the actual blast hit. I once got in trouble because I wouldn't get under the desk. I said what is a desk going to stop?
2007-10-21 15:36:49 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
People at that time didn't understand just what an atomic bomb did. Largely even the goverment didn't understand. One of the reasons for conducting the A-bomb and later H-bomb tests, besides being able to develop more powerful bombs, was to gain an understanding of what would happen. Duck and cover was thought to be a way to protect. From flying debris it might have done so. But you ever watch some of those old duck and cover adverts they had? You get the feeling that if the bomb goes off near by all you have to do is duck and cover and you'll be alright. By the time I was in high school we were already saying duck and cover and kiss you ******** goodbye. Because that close you don't have to worry about the radiation, you'd be incinerated rather than die from radiation. Further away from the blast you'd be more likely to survive, but none of the adverts I saw when they showed them to us in school as a way to understand the fear folks who lived through that part of the Cold War seemed to suggest anyone was really that far away when the bomb went off.
2016-04-09 20:58:22 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I do ..they would come around and knock on your door shouting blackout..My mom would close all shades or blinds or whatever we had and turn off all the lights ..what is scary now is to think we lived on a hill overlooking Mare Island Navel Shipyard in Vallejo Ca..the Island would be a great target and of course everything around it would go..thankfully I was to young to fully understand what could happen..
2007-10-21 19:45:10 · answer #4 · answered by jst4pat 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hell, honey, I'm still dreamin' about dear Vera Lynn.
2007-10-21 15:37:55 · answer #5 · answered by Preys With A Claw 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i sont remember them. i was over there ours wasnt a drill.
2007-10-25 03:46:15 · answer #6 · answered by oldtimer 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i remember learnimg about them...
2007-10-21 15:37:54 · answer #7 · answered by redjedi182 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋