I'm thinking Gen X is best equipped for all this because we spent our childhoods believing that the entire planet was going to be wiped out by nuclear war any moment. Dealing with constant, gnawing fear is just second nature for us.
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Basically, what I’m saying is that the fear of nuclear war during the 1970s and 1980s was nowhere near the intensity that it was in the 1950s and well into the 1960s. Cuban missle crisis, anyone?
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I remember the fear waxed & waned across 70s & peaked a bit in 80s (early Reagan presidency, before Gorbachev). If you remember early Reagan yrs & nothing before that, you might think you'd been in the thick of it. (I wasn't old enough at Cuban missile crisis to remember but ...)
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I did as a kindergartner in 70
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That was about as late as they happened, and only the oldest GenXers experienced them, as these drills rapidly declined in frequency during the early 1970s and by mid-decade were pretty much abandoned. In contrast, EVERY BOOMER experienced them during school.
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GenX didn't bother. We knew we were going to die if someone hit the red button. No desk would save us.
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We were busy navigating puberty and AIDS at the same time, while Boomers called us slackers relentlessly, and they proceeded to put Reagan in power.
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Gen X came of age believing sex could kill us.
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