10-02-2010, 06:07 PM
For those too young to remember all of that and the air rail drills at school, rent a movie called "On the Beach," filmed in 1958 or '59 with stars like Gregory Peck, and Fred Astaire. I remember the families of several of my more well-to-do friends had bomb shelters built under their back yards and had them stocked with food and water and clothing.
It was a grim, scary time to be a young kid growing up, thinking it could all be over in about 12 minutes!
And then there was Sputnick sailing by overhead ... you could actually see it cross the sky on clear winter nights!
It was a grim, scary time to be a young kid growing up, thinking it could all be over in about 12 minutes!
And then there was Sputnick sailing by overhead ... you could actually see it cross the sky on clear winter nights!
biL
Lehigh Susquehanna & WesternÂ
"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." ~~Abraham Lincoln
Lehigh Susquehanna & WesternÂ
"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." ~~Abraham Lincoln