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[journalismgirl]

For some reason I've been on this civil defense/nuclear protection kick lately. Don't know why

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[nightengalesknd]

We definitely did not. We did fire drills. I would remember Duck and Cover because fire drills got me into a state of focused hysteria (I was fine, so long as we immediately got in line in an orderly fashion and went outside where we stood in line in an orderly fashion until the alarm stopped sounding. Me, phobias much?) A

I was in elementary school from 1981 through 1987. New Jersey through 1984 and then a Boston suburb.

[journalismgirl]

We did fire drills, too.

That's interesting that your schools didn't do them, because we were in school roughly through the same time (I was 1984 through 1989 -- fourth grade). Maybe ours continued to do them because we were near an Army base (less than five miles away) that developed significantly during the Cold War, and about an hour away from a nuclear plant.

*shrugs*

[nightengalesknd]

Perhaps. I attended 7th grade in a private school that was renting space in an old elementary school on an air force base and we sure didn't do it there either. This was already 89 though and the Cold War was pretty much dead.

[journalismgirl]

Yeah, I don't remember doing it after fourth grade.

I've got some better links in my public blog, if you want to see the beauty that was the Duck and Cover nine-minute film from the 50s.

[rbb]

Nope, we didn't do them. And we were also right near a base - Marine Corps Air Station, and just slightly further from a huge Army base.

We had more than our share of tornado drills, though.

[journalismgirl]

I'm now starting to think that our district's paranoia must have been because of the proximity to the nuclear plant.

Or our superintendent was an idiot. That may be the more likely explanation.

[magwana]

We weren't too far from the Catawba nuclear power plant, but we didn't do any Duck and Cover drills. Tornadoes (similar, sort of) and fire drills, but that's it.

[ladyoracle]

We did it in school, too until 6th grade for me. That would've been '92, but old habits die hard I guess. Of course after that we'd still have tornado drills that were basically the same routine. I learned in 8th grade science how pointless it would've been to hid under a desk in the case of a nuclear bomb or nuclear power plant crisis, and at that point I vowed to never live within 100 mi of a nuclear power plant. So far so good.

[adamant_turtle]

Nope...