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Yep, was mostly us boomers. Back in 1975, while in JUNIOR HIGH, I was even pushed by my school into taking courses in basic emergency medical treatment, including external/internal trauma, fractures, radiation poisoning, gunshots, and childbirth -three nights a week for 12 weeks. 8th graders today would be in the fetal position in their "safe place".
I was in 4th grade when they started teaching Red cross first aid. If you stuck with it you were about first responder level by your freshman year. I am in early 50's so an og gen x'er. Man thanks for those memories. Wow.
Lol, I have about 10 years on ya. I had an advantage going into that training as I was farm raised and already knew how to treat and suture injured critters. Had already been up to my shoulder in birthing cows. I continued training later on with a local fire dept., then later as first responder while involved in LE. No regrets, has been handy.
We still had nuclear war drills in grade school where we hid underneath the desks and I'm in my late 40s.
It made the movie Red Dawn that much more real for me. Kek.
I'm 43. I had a rough childhood so my memory of back then is sketchy. But I remember either being shown video of what to do,or actually doing drills of hiding under your desk.
It wasn't predominant but there was still a hint of it in the air. It was talked about in my house. I also used to hide from planes bc of WWII talk (trains were the Russians, I mentioned in a different comment). I guess it just depends on who your parents were.
As an elementary school kid in the 1980s we did NOT have those stupid duck-and-cover drills where we practiced getting under our desks in case of nuclear war, because we all watched The Day After and we knew that a desk wasn't going to save us.
Speak for yourself. We had those drills and I remember thinking it was stupid as hell to hide under the desk.
They stopped soon after the Challenger explosion.
Must be regional. By Challenger I was already out of high school, and the duck-and-cover thing had been "before my time" all my life. IOW it never touched my life growing up in the '70s. I always knew it as a relic from back in the days when things were in black and white.
The practice was revived during the height of the Cold War in the 1980s in some school districts.
The only thing anyone needs to know about generation x is, we had bad ass entrance music: https://youtu.be/5E5oPvMRhs8
Meanwhile, there is not much difference between Gen X and (older) Millennials
Exactly. Older Gen Y here. I hate the term millennials- I call liberals of my age group exactly that and Gen Y for based ones!
You can get a lot wiser a lot faster these days, thanks internet :)
I don't even know where I fit in. I'm on the cusp in either direction depending on what article you read... /shrugs
It's the mentality that determines maturity, and the left is fuII of some of the most immature people on the planet. It's gotten to a point where it's just freakish, ngl.
Good God Man! The ecstasy and horror of such a comment.
I caught an efficiency hotel room on fire with the strawberry pop-tarts once. I put the pop-tarts in the toaster, jumped in the shower, and the toaster didn't pop up. Came out to a kitchen on fire, alarms blaring, and the hotel being evacuated.
The hotel had to move me because even though the fire dept cleaned stuff up pretty well, the hotel couldn't get the smoke detector off the ceiling and it kept doing that beepy thing because the battery mostly drained. Good times.
i know i’m focusing on the wrong part of the story here, but i’d like to meet just one human that actually toasts their pop tarts before they eat them!
If anyone forgets how to hide under a desk to protect themselves in the event of a nuclear explosion, I can show them.
I'm afraid those desks no longer fit... But, on a more serious note, I lived in Omaha during the Cuban Missile Crisis, and we were in the blast zone for SAC HQ-I heard JFK give his speech about full nuclear retaliation, and just KNEW I had 24 hours to live....a week later, I was amazed to be alive.. ah, the memories.. 😎
The Greatest Generation! 💪🏻
Gen X. The last generation to come up without cell phones. Not iPhones. Cellular phones. Like looking for a pay phone to call someone. Man I feel old now.
Haha yall cant see shit through all the weed smoke! Kek!
Gen Xer checking in
There will be no WWIII. Putin is supported by US (trump) and Xi. Part of the plan to bring down the canal
Gen X here. I will never eat maple and brown sugar pop tarts ever again. I would rather starve to death first.
Why?
12 months in Bosnia. Every time the canteen got a “fresh” shipment of goods the only pop tarts available - maple and brown sugar. Pure torture. I’m pretty sure they just gave them away for free to the military because they taste so terrible and sell like shit.
I remember as a child having a very real and unhealthy fear of dying from nuclear attack every night.
I still remember being woken up in the middle of the night and taken to my grandmother's house. I feel like it was when 3 mile island had a nuclear scare. But I never asked my parents to confirm.
That was not always fun. No leaders then were actually stupid enough to fire nukes at someone who could fire them back at you. However, one failure of the system and nukes could be flying all over the place. Who knows how many times we were seconds away from nuclear war and no one ever knew?
While we can argue about the age group of genX, I was born in the early 80's in SoCal. Throughout elementary school we regularly had attack drills.
They were basically the same as earthquake drills, get under your desk, wait for teachers instructions, then head to the parking lot. Mind you though, I grew up in very very close proximity to what was/is a target of Soviet/Russian nuclear attack.
I’m Gen X and can’t relate to this comment at all.
I mean, who doesn’t take 2 minutes to put the Pop Tart in the toaster?
we considered gen-x'ers pussies.
His first red-pill….
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In October of 1962 I remember the Nike missile sites ringing the city with every battery in the launch position ready to fire.
We lived equidistant from two cities that were primary military/industrial targets, both 25 miles away with us in the middle.
My parents and three of the neighbor families held a little meeting and discussed about where to bug out to. They were fairly certain we would definitely all be dead if it was about to get any worse than it already was.
We got pulled from school. Each of us had a bag packed and ready to go at a moment's notice. The station wagon was already loaded with as much food and water as we could stick into it and still fit all seven of us inside, with even more stuff loaded on the roof rack.
One of the families had a place in the middle of West Virginia, their old family farm they still owned. It would be tight but there would be anough room for us in a pinch.
I still remember the men talking about what to do for several hours. Each one was a combat vet of either WWII or Korea, one was both. They were some pretty tough customers, my Marine Korean War vet dad included, and they were scared.
To say things were insanely intense would be an understatement.
I don't remember ever prepping for nuclear war, unless you count packing a go-bag in case the Russians airdropped into my high school to take it over, so I could form a teenage militia named the Wolverines.
I remember when this video came out, still cracks me up 😆
https://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/end
Even though the boomer generation may have a better idea about it, I appreciate the thought.
Your Fren, A Millennial
🤣🤣🤣 I've lived across the street from the northeast corridor (train tracks, very busy) my whole life; bought the house next door. When we were little my sister and I would pretend the trains were the Russians coming. Every train, we would run and hide. We weren't allowed back inside until it got dark, so we had to keep busy.
Nope that’s the millennial