IdahoSandy

You would have to guard your supplies 24/7 and even then looters or the Government would take what they wanted like in the movie War Horse. My main worry would be safe water to drink, where you not only boil it but have to filter it some how. Let hope we never experience it.

kellen46

Oh yes I remember the desk thing...do you remember the song for it..."Duck and Cover". So in the event of a nuclear strike we were supposed to just hunker down and cover our heads. Did any one ever anywhere think that we would survive a hit with duck and cover? My when my DMIL was a child her class was taken out to view a nuclear bomb test from a hill which was supposed to be a safe distance away. Years later she died of thyroid cancer. So did many of her contemporaries in the area where she lived and grew up. Radioactive iodine anyone? Oh how our ignorance defines us.

karate lady

I recently had a post on face book that went like this ...leap year was started long after the Mayan calendar. with the number of extra days, the end of the world should have happened 8 mos ago. LOL.. not an exact quote but you get the idea. I am not going to worry about the world ending...can't do anything about it anyway. Just continue to live my life in a good way, stock for smaller disasters enjoy life.

Nina Baker

I'm with them too. God is greater, always present, a help in time of trouble! Not to mention, my life is in His hands.

CAS49OR

It was probably meant to help them deal with scary things. If they had not shown the A-bomb videos in the first place the kids might not have been so scared.

crtwelvecats

I don't watch those kind of movies or war movies. can't do anything in case of the bomb even doing the duck and cover at school was just to do as we were told by the teachers but after seeing the films us kids figured out that wasn't going to protect us. as for the war movies i can't handle them. I have seem the after effects that war does to the average people. not just the physical but the emotional part of it that stays with them. my step mom would dive under the table screaming for everyone to get down when to would hear the old bi-planes go over head. she would also wake up screaming sometime especially after seeing something like dr. Zavigo(sp?) she lost 3 brothers 2 in russia and 1 in italy. she was also the only servivor from the group of girls before escaping to italy, then france. and the others that were effected by the same kind of cancer I believe was because of the bombs from her town. including her and sister amoung them. the list can go on and on , i'm sure we probally all know people in our families and friends that have had to deal with the ugly side of life in one way or another. they are the strong.

polly13

I am one of the Duck and Cover generation. We were told it would protect us from flying glass of the windows. We also had drills to go into the hallway and lean against wall, left arm for head to lean against wall, right arm to cover head to prevent head injury from flying objects. I don't think we would have been protected in either situation, but it certainly made us aware of potential danger. Just as the WWll blackouts that I remember as a preschooler.

Jingle

It is past my realm of comprehension that anyone could believe they could actually survive anything like that. Keeping canned goods and all have expiration dates on them and maybe you would get sick and die from eating them.
A very good bet that all that would be destroyed also.
I don't waste my time thinking about that stuff and believe we are not in charge of our destiny.

Jingle

It is past my realm of comprehension that anyone could believe they could actually survive anything like that. Keeping canned goods and all have expiration dates on them and maybe you would get sick and die from eating them.
A very good bet that all that would be destroyed also.
I don't waste my time thinking about that stuff and believe we are not in charge of our destiny.

coopah

I'm with you on that!