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cksmithy

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7. I was on the west coast and and in the 5th grade, living about 10 miles from Fort Ord, CA Army base

Reply to electric_blue68 (Reply #4)

Tue Feb 3, 2026, 06:05 PM

Feb 3

Curling up under our desks drills, seemed to be a monthly drill and then all running out to stand in line to take the buses home, until there was an all clear. Kids were exposed to the news, we knew a bomb or war was going to happen. It was scary times, it seems scarier now.

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