Another nuclear "close-call" from the Cold War

[LT. Ox]

I grew up in Richmond Ca. (that is north east Bay of San Francisco Bay area) and was a junior in High School when Our President Kennedy was killed. I knew that the oil complex was a prime target as young as ten years old.
I had gone through elementary school and Junior high school with monthly drills at school about what to do if the siren went off "for real" as it went off every day a noon for testing.
I remember that a warble siren meant we had time to go to the nearest shelter, every school including elementary had them. I also knew by the time I was twelve that the only thing that would do was give us time to kiss our well I knew we were dead if that damn siren went off.
It gives you a different kind of childhood.