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Title: Do you remember air raid drills
Post by: Cretin on Mar 31 07 08:32
 [font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica"][a href="http://www.discovervancouver.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=151882" title="Do you remember air raid sirens"]Do you remember air raid sirens[/a][/font]

[font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica"]I grew up in N.Van.

I remember the air raid sirens  
I remember the drills that preceeded those sirens.
I remember having to duck and cover.
I remember carrying a paper ? gas mask. I think it was paper.

Just some questions.  Please respond honestly

how old were you ?

were did you practice the drills.

What school ?

N.Van ?
Van ?
Surrey ?
New-West. ?

Some other country? [/font]  
Title: Re: Do you remember air raid drills
Post by: kitten on Mar 31 07 08:38
I grew up on the East Coast, and as far as I know, there weren't any air raid drills.  We didn't have them in school.  I'm referring to World War II, are you?
Title: Re: Do you remember air raid drills
Post by: Cretin on Mar 31 07 08:44
I am not referencing ww2, kitten.  These drills were practiced in the early 70's I also grew up on the west coast. I think I am one of very few children of that time to actually have grown up practicing these drills. I also think more Americans from the Cuban crises grew up doing this, than Canadians.

 
Title: Re: Do you remember air raid drills
Post by: kitten on Mar 31 07 08:48
I think you are right about that.  I know kids practice fire drills at school, but I can't recall having heard anyone say that they had air raid drills.  I heard that those were common in the States during the Eisenhower years during the Cold War, but I don't know how true that is.
Title: Re: Do you remember air raid drills
Post by: P.C. on Mar 31 07 08:56
I remember air raid sirens......but I don't remember air raid drills.

  It's interesting that you brought this up, because many years later, as an adult, I thought about the terror that would strike me as a child when I heard them....and yet I really had no idea what they really meant.

It led me to all kinds of odd thoughts.  I even entertained the thought that I wondered if I had lived in another time. (I know....weird)  But the level of terror didn't match any of my actual life experiences.

  *I was raised in Van.

  Also.....we have those same sirens where I live, for the volunteer fired department......and the same terror still strikes me today. (only momentarily.....but it's still there none the less)
Title: Re: Do you remember air raid drills
Post by: Lil Me on Mar 31 07 09:27
All the old brick schools had air raid sirens (probably still do?), but I've never heard them.  
Title: Re: Do you remember air raid drills
Post by: Orik on Mar 31 07 09:39
I really should have logged in to create this thread...

yeah I remember the sirens going off and being scared silly... i remember the duck and cover drills... and the only people I know who did this in the very early 70's are all English (as in u.k.) or other children who went to my school... I have not (yet) met any other adults who did these drills...  though a few others remember the air raid siren drills, the TV station and radio station announcements... like had this been a actual emergency....  I even remember the route to the designated meeting area and who was to open the bomb shelter...

P.C. i do not think I am remembering a previous life... just remembering parts of my childhood... though very few others in there mid thirties have these memories... does this make me weird ?




 
Title: Re: Do you remember air raid drills
Post by: P.C. on Mar 31 07 10:06
P.C. i do not think I am remembering a previous life... just remembering parts of my childhood... though very few others in there mid thirties have these memories... does this make me weird ?

  Oh no Orik.  I meant that I've wondered if [FONT size=4]I [/FONT]was remembering a previous life.  I hope you don't think I was insinuating anything.  Those are thoughts that I've had, about where the terror came from with no real life reference.

  And now that you've opened this up....I'm having really vague snippets of memory of air raid drills. (but not in the 70's)  Really vague.
Title: Re: Do you remember air raid drills
Post by: Orik on Mar 31 07 10:26
 how very odd pc. i never thought you were insinuating anything hon... i was just responding to your thoughts is all... you were thinking of a possible previous life...  shrugs .. memories are odd... i remember nothing about my childhood... except parts and pieces, i could not tell you who my friends were or who the teachers were but i remember cub scouts and first aid lessons.. duck and cover drills... assembly's... evacuation drills (and i am not talking fire drills here) i do mean actual evacuation drills... practicing of putting on a gas mask... training to use fire extinguishers... i got some odd memories.... shakes head...

i remember falling out of a tree (broke my best friends fireman's helmet) better that helmet than my skull i guess.... i have no recollection of getting stuck in a tree upside down by my ankle but my mum says it happened, according to mum, dad had to come rescue me, lol.. i remember the creepy janitors area we had to go to clean chalk erasers... i mean the janitor was creepy...  maybe he was creepy cause of that giant gas furnace... ah well ...

 i  hope to find some other people around my age (35) who remember this training... these drills... i think pitbull did the duck and cover drills... though she is a tad older than myself... and i am not even sure if is the same pitbull as the one from dv...

i also asked this question before but it never garnered any responses... (mind that was on that cesspool forum dv)






 
Title: Re: Do you remember air raid drills
Post by: P.C. on Mar 31 07 10:35
how very odd pc. i never thought you were insinuating anything hon... i was just responding to your thoughts is all... you were thinking of a possible previous life

  Phewww !!!!  

  Memories ARE weird.  My oldest sister can actually remember being in her CRIB.  My memories are patchy as well.  I remember the oddest small things so vividly and yet have zero recollection of significant events.  But mostly my memory isn't so much what I can or can't remember.....it's more of the chronological order of things.  

  I would never disagree with my sisters on WHEN something took place, because I have been known to be YEARS out.

  *I think I'm straying from your topic......but it may make a good topic on it's own.  
Title: Re: Do you remember air raid drills
Post by: Lise on Mar 31 07 11:03
Nope. Growing up in Australia there was no real need for air drills. Fire drills maybe but definitely not air drills.

  Do they still have them here?
Title: Re: Do you remember air raid drills
Post by: Sportsdude on Mar 31 07 11:06
now don't laugh, my cousins old school growing up in the middle of nowhere in southern illinois had a nuclear bomb shelter. lol!!!!!  
Title: Re: Do you remember air raid drills
Post by: GORDY GAMBINO on Mar 31 07 11:13
LISE I ALWAYS THOUGHT YOU WERE BETTER THAN THE REST BUT WHEN YOU SAID YOU GREW UP IN AUSSIE . THATS A FACT JACK. P.S . SIZZLER STILL IS OPEN ON W.A. AND THATS A FACT JACK. AUSSIE AUSSIE AUSSIE   IVE ONLY HAD ABOUT 37 CANS TODAY . MY DAY OFF
Title: Re: Do you remember air raid drills
Post by: WS on Apr 01 07 03:19
I remember 'air raid drills' as a kid, but they were really used as a call out to the on call firefighters before pagers were common.  I was probably 7 or 8.  
Title: Re: Do you remember air raid drills
Post by: Raor on Apr 01 07 03:21
  i remember them (as the real deal) from my past life.  (//forums/richedit/smileys/Word_Positive/4.gif)   ..............LOL





j/k.:)
   
Title: Re: Do you remember air raid drills
Post by: GORDY GAMBINO on Apr 01 07 03:58
raor i thought you quit this forum
Title: Re: Do you remember air raid drills
Post by: Raor on Apr 01 07 04:00
don't you know?

the cat always comes back!  (http://www.cheesebuerger.de/images/smilie/froehlich/d045.gif)
 
Title: Re: Do you remember air raid drills
Post by: GORDY GAMBINO on Apr 01 07 04:01
9 LIVES EH BITCH
Title: Re: Do you remember air raid drills
Post by: Raor on Apr 01 07 04:18
 i don't know which life i'm on.  i think after teh 9th, it repeats itself again.  *laugh*  
Title: Re: Do you remember air raid drills
Post by: Raor on Apr 01 07 04:22
  gordy,

do u happen to know this song?

"But the cat came back the very next day,
The cat came back, we thought she was a goner
But the cat came back;[span style="background-color: rgb(255, 191, 255);"] it[span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"] [/span]just couldn't stay away.[/span]
Away, away, yea, yea, yea.."

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Title: Re: Do you remember air raid drills
Post by: Raor on Apr 01 07 04:23
so um, gordy..

do u remember air raid drills?  because i think i do, kind of.

were there any air raid drills in australia?
 
Title: Re: Do you remember air raid drills
Post by: GORDY GAMBINO on Apr 01 07 04:28
NO AIR RAIS DRILLS IN AUST. FIRE DRILLS YES. BESIDES WE ONLY GOT BOMBED IN THE FAR NORTH BY THE JAPS.  I LIVE ON THE WEST COAST. IN A PARADISE.
Title: Re: Do you remember air raid drills
Post by: Raor on Apr 01 07 04:29
have to wait another hour before i can smite u again..

hmm.
 
Title: Re: Do you remember air raid drills
Post by: Raor on Apr 01 07 04:30
  *woops*  did i just say that out LOUD?    ....... (//forums/richedit/smileys/10.gif)    
Title: Re: Do you remember air raid drills
Post by: GORDY GAMBINO on Apr 01 07 04:33
BITCH I DON'T SMITE YOU .YOUR GETTING THE TOY. THE ONLY REASON I'M HERE IS BECAUSE OF LOULOU. NOW BE A GOOD GIRL
Title: Re: Do you remember air raid drills
Post by: Raor on Apr 01 07 04:39
  the funny thing, is that i don't care why you're here.  (//forums/richedit/smileys/Happy/1.gif)   ...(http://www.cheesebuerger.de/images/more/bigs/c008.gif)


say "hi" to loulou for me.....................(http://www.cheesebuerger.de/images/more/bigs/c028.gif)   lol.
   
Title: Re: Do you remember air raid drills
Post by: GORDY GAMBINO on Apr 01 07 04:42
SAY HELLO TO HER YOURSELF BRIDESMAID. SHE'S AROUND HERE SOMEWHERE.
Title: Re: Do you remember air raid drills
Post by: Raor on Apr 01 07 04:45
loulou,

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Title: Re: Do you remember air raid drills
Post by: Raor on Apr 01 07 04:46
 so..loulou, what colour is my bridesmaid's dress going to be?

i rather like light green, or maybe pink.
   
Title: Re: Do you remember air raid drills
Post by: GORDY GAMBINO on Apr 01 07 04:53
BLACK
Title: Re: Do you remember air raid drills
Post by: Brit_Guy on Apr 01 07 06:11
I went around my mothers house and asked her about WW2 sirens. The following is her recollection of those years, she was nearly 7 years old at the time.

She remembers laying across a small bunk at the back of the shelter. Laying there with blankets over her head and hands over her ears & wearing a gasmask, trying to block out the noise of the sirens & the bombs. Gran patting her back and saying `none of the jerry bombs had there name on'.

She then heard the " all clear" frightened encase they had no house left. During "the battle of Britain" my mother had to stay down there every night. They eventually came out, only to discover that the next street had a direct hit & her 3 year old cousin being  dug out of the rubble dead.


Those were my Mums recollection of the Sirens.

 
Title: Re: Do you remember air raid drills
Post by: ... on Apr 01 07 06:16
I remeber we had those drills in Soviet Russia.  
Title: Re: Do you remember air raid drills
Post by: Gopher on Apr 01 07 12:06
Our WW2 air raid sirens are still operational, but now they're used for flood warnings.
Title: Re: Do you remember air raid drills
Post by: Sportsdude on Apr 01 07 12:13
same here, we use it for flood and tornado warnings. Although I remember them doing the air raid sirens before the soviet union collapsed.  The sound was creepy.

The National Guard here still practices like we are going to get invaded, they do daily drills with their F-16's.
 
Title: Re: Do you remember air raid drills
Post by: Orik on Apr 01 07 11:57
bless you all...for your memories and thank you for bringing this thread back on topic