Reply #43: Born in 1952...I honestly thought, and feared, that a nuclear war would happen [View All]

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Duck and cover...the Soviet threat...images of Kruschev banging his shoe on the table yelling, "We will bury you!!!"...the Cuban missile crisis...those huge, awful yellow air raid sirens on public buildings (replacing the smaller ones) and how they would be tested each Friday at noon. The sound they made was, to me, blood curdling. There was no place to hide.

I spent many sleepless hours waiting for one to go off in the middle of the night, signaling an imminent nuclear attack.

I was literally terrorized as a child, and lived with that terror well into my adulthood.