[CathyRyan]

I am from the duck and cover generation. Some of my earliest memories are of my mother putting on her makeup when a siren goes off she stops and then says it's OK it's just a drill and goes back to putting on her makeup and my dad taking us all out to look at fallout shelters. It was like a damn family outing to pick out a Christmas tree. It's a wonder I do not have a shrink on 24 hour on-call retainer.

[backhoe]

Yes, I grew up then, too- it was a weird time! Recall the planes flying away from Glynco NAS during the Cuban missile crisis....