mpeirce
Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
I remember those drills. Even in elementary school, living eight miles from the D.C. line we were under no delusions that there would be enough of us left to pick up so we thought the whole exercise was pointless.
I remember when I moved to Silicon Valley in the 80's, there was a facility not far from where I lived called the Blue Cube (Onizuka Air Force Station, now closed) which was suppose to be in the single digits on the on the Soviet's target list.
I figured this was a good thing - no lingering about when the big war comes.