..and the Air Raid Siren is wailing. The three-minute blast from the village is a reminder of weekly tests of the 95 sirens in Chicago and Cook County that would wail every Tuesday morning (at 10 am) starting in 1950, reminding us that we were only hours from the apocalypse. By the late 1950's it was only minutes. Postcards from the county civil defense director were sent asking us to describe the siren - this then used to "fill in the holes" in our paranoid mental maps.
This is posted for those who think their children are growing up in a different world than we.
This is posted for those who think their children are growing up in a different world than we.
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