A Little Humor for the Day
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When we were living in Berlin, New Hampshire, when the air-raid sirens went off for a citywide drill, we were sent out of the classroom to hide between our winter coats hanging in the hallway and the classroom wall. Just about as effective as your desks were, eh?
Cool beans! In my grade school, coats and jackets were hung in a "cloak room". Long after anyone in Illinois ever wore a cloak!
But I must point out the efficacy of ducking under a flimsy open desk: No one died from an A or H bomb during the 50's! Neither from direct blast nor radiation....
Not quite.
On March 1, 1954, the United States conducted a test explosion of a nuclear warhead on Bikini Atoll in the South Pacific. A cloud of radioactive ash caused by the blast engulfed a Japanese fishing boat, Daigo Fukuryū-maru (Lucky Dragon No. 5), 85 miles away from the test area.
Most of the crew suffered from radiation poisoning and one died a few months later, believed to be the first H bomb victim.
My statement stands: The protection of the desks was not available to the fishermen! And I meant, but didn't say, the continental U.S..
And I don't mean to make light of the horrible fate of the crew of the Lucky Dragon.
And I don't mean to make light of the horrible fate of the crew of the Lucky Dragon.
Also, do not give otters your playing cards in bad weather..
We don't like pinochle otters, getting caught in the rain.
We don't like pinochle otters, getting caught in the rain.
Me too, and I feel bad for today's youth that they dodn't get to grow up in an analog world.
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