down2earth
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Does anyone remember "Duck & Cover" from the 1950's? I was 8 years old in 1956 and my third grade teacher would make us practice "Duck & Cover" drills where we would pretend that Russian planes were dropping bombs on us. We would crawl under our wooden desks to protect us. Naturally, the high quality of those wooden desks would keep us safe if the school building was being vaporized by Russian hydrogen bombs. Oh, by the way, those desks would also keep us safe from radiation and shock waves. I remember feeling vulnerable at home. What if the Russians dropped a hydrogen bomb on my house? I didn't have my school desk to protect me!!!