• Jo Miran@lemmy.mlM
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    4 days ago

    Nope. This is a Boomer bomb shelter. Gen-X never did any of that. We just watched nuclear apocalypse movies on TV and hoped we would not survive the initial blast.

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      4 days ago

      As a Gen Xer in the midwest, I remember the “sit in the hallway and cover your head” Tornado drills, but never bomb drills.

      Columbine happened when I was in school, but the running joke at my inner city school was that anyone who pulled a gun would immediately commit suicide by 3 shots to the back of the head in 3 different calibers, and their gun would disappear.

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      3 days ago

      I’m Genx and we definitely did this at my Catholic grade school, at least the first few years as far as I can remember. A bit terrifying really.