Amazing. And almost a year later, the Cuban Missile Crisis. Were you old enough for it to register? I was living in Sarnia, Chemical Valley, quite the industrial concern in the day. When it was over, Mom built a cinder block bomb shelter in the basement, stocked with cans and a large outdoor garbage pail full of water, changed weekly, plus fold down cots for us, my aunt, uncle and three cousins. I'm not sure how she planned to keep out the neighbours.
b. 1955 so yes, old enough for it to register as something worrisome, but I don't think it kept me awake. I remember the girl from across the street, Nancy, came over to play and we made a bomb shelter in the basement with a kiddy table and a blanket and sat there happily eating soda crackers and enjoying the end of the world.
Haha. This is how we know we're aging. To think that thirty year olds have no personal awareness of the first moon walk, Nixon's impeachment, the arrival of the fag, anthem and Charter, or even Mulroney and Reagan.
The equivalent for people who were our current age when we were thirty would be them saying, "To think that thirty year olds today have no personal awareness of the two World Wars, the Communist Revolution, or the Great Depression."
Jeepers . . .
Amazing. And almost a year later, the Cuban Missile Crisis. Were you old enough for it to register? I was living in Sarnia, Chemical Valley, quite the industrial concern in the day. When it was over, Mom built a cinder block bomb shelter in the basement, stocked with cans and a large outdoor garbage pail full of water, changed weekly, plus fold down cots for us, my aunt, uncle and three cousins. I'm not sure how she planned to keep out the neighbours.
We forget how close we came.
b. 1955 so yes, old enough for it to register as something worrisome, but I don't think it kept me awake. I remember the girl from across the street, Nancy, came over to play and we made a bomb shelter in the basement with a kiddy table and a blanket and sat there happily eating soda crackers and enjoying the end of the world.
Haha. This is how we know we're aging. To think that thirty year olds have no personal awareness of the first moon walk, Nixon's impeachment, the arrival of the fag, anthem and Charter, or even Mulroney and Reagan.
The equivalent for people who were our current age when we were thirty would be them saying, "To think that thirty year olds today have no personal awareness of the two World Wars, the Communist Revolution, or the Great Depression."
We lucked out.