Gen X be like…
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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