Just curious but...
does anyone here even remember or still have their dogtags from grade school?
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I didn't have dogtags, but I certainly remember "duck and cover"....We had to practice crouching in the hallways and under desks with our heads down. This was the position which would protect us if "The Bomb" should ever be dropped. Living in the middle of Kansas, we were mere miles from a missile site, it was a real fear. I was terrified of The Bomb for most of my childhood.
Ironically, my sis and I have been sick since childhood most likely because of atomic bomb tests (and nerve gas incidents). We experienced the fallout of these living as infants in Salt Lake City, 1953-56.
Thank you, US government.
No sense trying to blame somebody. The "fallout" business is a chimera. There wasn't enough of it to make anybody sick. Besides, "US government" is more "US" than "government."
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Um. The movie takes place in the 1950's. The baby boom occurred during the years between 1946 to 1964. Or, in some texts 1943 to 1960. So, these events happen during the baby boom's school years.
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Fall out is NOT a chimera. I now reside in the desert southwest and know people in Utah, Nevada and Arizona who cannot father children because of these tests. In many cases their parents died of multiple myeloma. Their siblings were born with their ribs and organs born outside of their bodies. Other children died of leukemia.
All along the ever changing jet-stream all the way to Misouri, baby-boom era women are suffering from failing thyroids because of the radiation, so don't ever say that fall out is not for real.
I grew up in the Great Lakes and had those dog tags. I stil have them somewhere.
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