Here's the question we were all asking when I was a kid:
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We all knew that the Commies were the bad guys and it could all go up in flames at any time.
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Fortunately there was protection afforded us from total nuclear holocaust...
in the form of our wooden school desks (thanks American Seating of Grand Rapids Michigan), ...
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as well as our municipal fallout shelters, which provided both protection as well as ready made tombs for hundreds of thousand of incinerated Americans.
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When you begin to hear these...
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Responsible members of the community would clap on these:
Fortunately the wall came down and all of this became a distant memory...
Until Putin, that is.
provenance:
accession number:
United States Civil Defense M1 helmet liner
Acquired 1999, Flat River Antique Mall, Lowell Michigan.
purchase price: $10.00
Condition: fair/good
provenance:
accession number:
United States Civil Defense M1 helmet liner
Acquired 1999, Flat River Antique Mall, Lowell Michigan.
purchase price: $10.00
Condition: fair/good