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When kids were scared but didn't know why

To those of you say 35 or younger this is nightmarish fear not understood until years later when you could comprehend what was happening.

I was 8 years old and with the rest of the class hearing sirens and told to get under our desks. One of those days this was happening.

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We were that close and didn't know it.
Nightmares were common for many of us just a few years later.
But this isn't what we knew then. We just knew the missles were there.
A couple years later we knew how close Kennedy was to the button but that sub? Not until this.
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Lostpoet · M
That was a scary time and I'm glad nothing happened. But let's not forget that it did happen to a group of people and all those fears were realized.

Another thought, I don't know if it's worse for a kid thinking that any moment a big bomb might fall from the sky and kill them or kids now having to think whether another kid or grown up might show up with a gun.