Hmmm. Not a Bruce Willis fan, eh? I remember the "duck and cover" drills, too. I never worried about an atomic blast because my wooden desk was going to protect me.
Even as a Kid I knew the main goal was to make the ashes easy to identify...if there was anyone left to gather them. Interesting how many of the Twilight Zone and Outer Limits episodes of the day echoed the "We're gonna destroy ourselves" fears of the day.
Yeah, I remember walking home from school.after one of those under-the-desk sessions. I looked at all the houses thinking of everything disappearing in a flash. We all, of a certain age, grew up with this trauma. How would we have been different without it? .....no way to know.
Yup. For me, it was a furtherance of the chaos at home. I recall the weekly siren tests, but am not certain if they were emergency sirens or just the normal testing the volunteer fire department did in the days preceding cell phones.
"Yup. For me, it was a furtherance of the chaos at home." It sounds like we have a dysfunctional family life in common, if that's what you mean by 'chaos at home'.
It's a movie concerning The Rapture, aka End of Times. Just like the Cuban Missile Crisis, this movie scared the heck out of me.
Did ya ever watch a movie two or three times and when something you know that is bad is going to happen, you catch yourself in that moment of suspense hoping that the bad thing is somehow going to change?
It was a good movie. I liked a couple of striking scenes; the small plane crashing into the Macy's parking lot, .the maternity ward with all the newborns gone. The airliner emergency landing was .well done.
Propeller beanies make a lot more sense than my propeller.shoes. I end up hanging in the air upside down - quite annoying.