Reminds me of when I was a little kid and they had the A-bomb scare and people were digging bomb shelters in their back yards and schools were doing drills making kids hide under their desks in case we got nuked. Very serious at the time, but silly looking back.
The Cold War was some serious beef. Looking back at my childhood I was never scared of too much except one or two tough dudes older than me and swimming in water where I saw an alligator. Not afraid of the dark, the boogie man, bigfoot, haunted houses, the KKK, ghosts, goblins, vampires, zombies, Jason, Freddy, Michael Myers, Skinheads, Charles Manson, fish, snakes, turtles, Vice Lords, Bloods, girls with cooties, mosquitoes that could pass AIDS, thunderstorms, tornados, etc. I made the Chucky Doll cooler before Dominque Easley was probably even born. I was no badass and not trying to sound like one. Stuff just didn't scare me. Horror movies made me laugh. I did only once make sure my door was locked while watching Texas Chainsaw Massacre because one of the settings looked like my house. I was the first to jump off the low bridge in high water. If there was a dare to be made folks usually approached me to do it. Like mentioned above I am not a BA, I probably just had a few marbles loose. Probably still do.
Anyway, despite that what worried me the most as a kid and gave me nightmares were the Russians. USSSR. I was so scared they were going to bomb us.
