6:49
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I don't think anyone in DC took evacuation or much of anything else
seriously. They just assumed in a nuke war we were toast.
During the Cuban Missile ****up my dad wanted us all to go to the
mountains in southern Virginia but my mom asked why bother.
....

Your mom was a wise lady. Eh when in grade school it was treated like a game to the little kids. Upper class I’m sure took it more seriously..

On 3/25/18 8:05 PM, Tim wrote:

6:49
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I don't think anyone in DC took evacuation or much of anything else
seriously. They just assumed in a nuke war we were toast.
During the Cuban Missile ****up my dad wanted us all to go to the
mountains in southern Virginia but my mom asked why bother.
...

Your mom was a wise lady. Eh when in grade school it was treated like a game to the little kids. Upper class I’m sure took it more seriously.


You grew up in an area that might have been targeted? Really?

On Sun, 25 Mar 2018 20:06:19 -0400, Keyser Soze
wrote:

On 3/25/18 8:05 PM, Tim wrote:

6:49
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I don't think anyone in DC took evacuation or much of anything else
seriously. They just assumed in a nuke war we were toast.
During the Cuban Missile ****up my dad wanted us all to go to the
mountains in southern Virginia but my mom asked why bother.
...

Your mom was a wise lady. Eh when in grade school it was treated like a game to the little kids. Upper class I’m sure took it more seriously.


You grew up in an area that might have been targeted? Really?

The strange thing is the midwest may have actually been the place that
actually got nuked in the cold war. The people there seem to have a
disproportionate rate of random stomach and colon cancers that may
have been caused by fallout from the open air testing. I agree that
other than a random SAC base scattered around that area, there was not
much for the Russians to shoot at.
OTOH any hit within a 50 mile radius of DC was likely to hit some
military or critical government facility. We were right in the
helicopter path between the White House and Andrews.
In the 50s we did have anti aircraft facilities around DC. There was a
Hawk and Hercules missile base right there at 210 and Oxon Hill Road
at the top of the hill near where the Tangier National Harbor Mall is
now along with a lot of those new roads.. Around 54-55 they pulled
them out but it was still Army property until they built the beltway.