Just got to my hotel. I see Trump boomers all over the place. In the restaurants, in the hotel, in the lobby, in the CVS, on the road, at the gas station, at the bar, in the mall, on the street. Everywhere!
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Just got to my hotel. I see Trump boomers all over the place. In the restaurants, in the hotel, in the lobby, in the CVS, on the road, at the gas station, at the bar, in the mall, on the street. Everywhere!
Indeed. As do older Gen Xers. We grew up with the very real threat of Commie Russian Nuclear war. I remember every day walking to school thinking "I wonder if we will get destroyed in a nuclear strike today". not shitting.
Story time. I'm a former Air Force brat and was in high school at an air base in West Germany in 1985. One day the principal of the high school came over the intercom and told us to stand by for an important announcement. You could hear the stress in his voice. We all immediately thought that war had kicked off with the Soviets and that the missiles would be hitting us shortly. This was the height of the Cold War and we knew that we would be one of the first targets for any attack.
Several tense minutes followed before the principle came back over the intercom and announced that a bomb had been found on one of the U.S. school buses in another part of West Germany. We were advised to be especially vigilant regarding any unattended or suspicious items on our buses. This was at a time when the Red Army Faction (German commies) were doing bombings, kidnappings, and assassinations across West Germany.
Let me tell you, we all collectively breathed a sigh of relief after that announcement that we weren't facing nuclear armageddon. We were already used to worrying about Red Army Faction terrorist attacks.
I am an Air Force brat, raised during the Cuban missile crisis and the murder of JFK. I remember seeing Sputnik for the first time over our heads and how my mom was afraid. I remember Duck and Cover drills...none of us had any idea we’d still die, but we practiced for the dropping of a nuke. I remember many things...that’s why they want us dead...we know stuff.
No way duck and cover would’ve saved anybody...not without a mask on.
Ditto Yep. That desk of laminate, pressed wood and sheet metal was going to protect us from a nooklar blast.
Yep.
Yeah, the Cuban missile crisis era and a decade plus following that was more "the height of the cold war" Stateside than anything in the 80's. At least in terms of what was told to the public.
Although in Germany, that's another thing entirely.
Early 60's Cali Duck & Cover was disguised as earthquake drill. Navy brat - moved to Key West in September 1962 - right smack in the middle of what was a war zone. Hawk missiles and Marines all over the island. Movie "Matinee" with John Goodman catches some of the period.
AF brat, and also AF vet. Will be standing with all the Patriots Wed in DC.
Shit hot show today in the crap weather in DC. Somehow I missed on the volume of the effort that was conducted on our behalf today. In the 80s, I had a theme t-shirt that said "Kill a Commie for Mommy". One of my favorites.
Air Force brat living at Cdn base in Germany during Cuban Missile Crisis. We were told that missiles were aimed at our base. Air raid sirens would sound, every kid ran home to the bunkers in our apartment bldg. Quite a sight seeing hundreds of little kids running, crying, terrified, some wetting their pants. The mother’s and children would stay in the bunker until the all-clear. I still remember the worried look on my mother’s face.
When I grew up overseas, the host country's soldiers boarded our buses every day and looked under the seats for bombs.
But yes, with the years comes wisdom. Glad to see some kind things said and credit given to boomers.
This, but planes
planes can carry nukes too.
I see trump boomers all the way from the windowwwwe to the wall
Remember 'the day after' fear porn? Hahaha... I remember crying to my mom after they showed us that!
RIP Patrick Swazye.
WOLVERINES!!
Yeah, it might do all pedes well to watch the original Red Dawn, no matter how many times you've seen it and especially if you haven't.
It's lots of Hollywood fake stuff, of course, but there are kernels of truth in there, and plenty of inspiration for the reality of what has happened plenty of times in the past during partisan resistances.
It's crazy to realize that I am typing this about my country that I remember being so different not so long ago. However, as a student of history, I know that that has been thought countless times by countless peoples as they found themselves at an inflection point...they never thought that their fine nation would be poisoned from within. And, there are those that went gently into the night of their former existence, and there are those that fought viscously to return to their past glory.
I still believe there are many more viscous lovers of liberty than there are gentle attendants to the commie insurgency.
Remember The Hunt for Red October?
Avenge Me!!!!
Modern version: tolerate 0 arrests in DC!
That movie scared the shit out of me when I was a kid.
It was fuckin supposed to! If it was required school curriculum we wouldn't have this faggot marxist bs
The whole point of that movie was to turn people against Reagan’s stand against the U.S.S.R. Same with “Testament,” and the British film, “Threads.”
we've been lied to our entire existence
Now now were still bien lied to
Also the one with Air Force One, heavy pro-Russian commie propaganda
Exactly.
MY PARENTS WOULDN'T LET ME WATCH IT
I ended up seeing it later but I can see why they thought it to be sensitive material. I mean, I like that I'm from a conservative family!
Remember Miracle Mile?
That show fucked me up for days.
Us mid to younger Gen-X'ers get it too. 1976, I still had duck-and-cover drills in my first couple years of school. Grew up with commies == enemy and hey, that's still true.
Xennials represent! Young enough to be current with today's technology; old enough to remember when America had its head on straight.
There is another generation between Boomers and Millennials called "Generation Jones". We are right there in-between the two. Too young for JFK to have meant anything to us and too old to find rap interesting........
Hello there! Hat down.
Yep. "Get under your desks for the nuclear bomb drill " lol
We did Duck & Cover when I was in school in 1960.
Hell, back in the 80's my elementary school STILL had an air raid siren AND tested it now and again. That thing was LOOOOUUUUUUUD! Not in tornado alley BTW - definitely part of the cold war toolset.
I am from Minnesota MANY MANY TORNADOS! I am also from the 60s born and in elementary school we had NUCLEAR and TORNADO drills. The difference was the DESK or the HALLWAY! IN a tornado drill we went into hallways and lined up on the walls. In the nuclear drills we sat under our desks!
Completely different drills!
Because everyone knows the best protection against nuclear radiation is a DESK... in the same way that the best protection against airborne viruses is a MASK.
The message being that tornadoes are more dangerous than nukes
Who the fuck thought this was a good idea?
Younger Gen Xer too. In addition getting under our desks we had some kids assigned to turn off the lights and lower the blinds. Teacher said it was to help stop flying glass caused by the shockwave.
There is an actual abandoned Nike base in my wife’s home town.
"Nike base?" Used for the sneaker war?
hell yeah duck and cover! I remember doing that in the 70's in grade school. even then I was thinking "what is this desk supposed to do if we get hit by a warhead?" lolol
HOLY SCHNIKES I HAD FORGOTTEN THAT LOLOL THANK YOU!!!
They used to show those short films in the movie theatre before the double feature. Heh. They used to actually show 2 movies for the price of one when you went to the theatre. At least in my little town.
I guess you guys grew up in flyover Country? We had air raid sirens and had to get to the bomb shelters. Never saw that movie. We saw footage of the test blasts though
We lived within a couple miles of a major first strike target, so we never had duck and cover drills. Heh!
That's hilarious and depressing.
Remember nice fresh baked monster cinnamon rolls and or buns with real fucking butter and 3cent milk brought to the class room. Then the drop stop and roll or air raid duck and cover under the desk.
wear a mask is duck and cover, but worse
Please who else do you think OP is talking about???
No one can get these generations right, fucking kids these days.