“Let’s try again,” he said evenly. “From the beginning. Like as if we didn’t hate each other and were just trying to understand the situation. Could we?"
Raymond Chandler's character "Marlowe"
To Give You Another Perspective, Here Is My Personal Experience That Shaped My Views On The Matter
by Danny Hammond of the 3/4 Court Press
You still hear this from comedians. But, it is getting too far back in time, most people aren't old enough to relate to it. I do not know if that is a good thing, or not.
This story has left emotional scars on millions, but soon, there won't be many people that would know what you were talking about if you tried to tell them the story.
The comedians talk about the classroom films that little kids had to watch in their grade school after the end of World War II and the start of the "Cold War" with its constant threat of a nuclear bomb attack anywhere at any time.
I would have understood that this might be a real threat if I had realized that I only lived about ten miles as the crow flies from Knob Noster, MO and Whiteman Air Force Base originally a home base for the large B-52 bomber when it was first introduced to the US Airforce in 1958. But, I was in the first grade I just knew I lived on Main Street.
I was one of those kids who was shown a video concerning what I was to do in the event of a nuclear explosion in the area around my school and the entire area was incinerated.
We were to get under our desks and wrap our arms around our heads. At that time no one told us that we would never have time to follow these instructions. The true madness of these lessons that bad grownups thought we little kids should learn in these films is best demonstrated by the fact that all school desks of that time were made of wood.
C'mon, knowing that, you just have to READ MORE
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