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Cold War Survival
Image Title:  Cold War Survival
 
 By: Dave Arnold  
  Copyright ©2007



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Photographer Dave Arnold {K:55613}
Project #23 Objects Camera Model Canon 30D
Categories Others
Film Format Digital JPEG High
Portfolio Objects
Windows and Doors
Lens Canon 75-300MM EF 1:4-5.6 IS
Uploaded 5/20/2007 Film / Memory Type Lexar  1GB
    ISO / Film Speed
Views 142 Shutter 1/500
Favorites Aperture f/22
Critiques 14 Rating
6.00
/ 4 Ratings
Location City -  Quanah
State -  TEXAS
Country - United States   United States
About Civil Defense water barrels lie rusting and falling in a warehouse in a small Texas town. These "survival rations" were very common during the Cold War from about the 1960s on.

American "Civil Defense" is a thing of the past. A memory of such things as "duck and cover", the senseless drills we'd have in our schools about hiding under our desks in case of nuclear attacks.

Knowing our government's bureaucracy, it is probable that these useless items cannot merely be pitched out. Instead, we are probably paying big tax dollars to store them each year.
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There are 14 Comments in 1 Pages
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Michele Carlsen   {K:134656} 5/20/2007
Food and water for thought here Dave- I remember hiding under my desk at school during bomb drills....
Michele~


Paul Lara   {K:80189} 5/21/2007
Hey, I know!
Let's bomb a country into dust, and then send in our friends to re-build it all...for a profit.


Shirley D. Cross   {K:141852} 5/21/2007
I remember with Michele those drills. This is a great capture, Dave.


Dave Arnold   {K:55613} 5/21/2007
Thanks, Michele... and today's "duck and cover" byword seems to be "lockdown".


Dave Arnold   {K:55613} 5/21/2007
Amen, Paul, amen.


Dave Arnold   {K:55613} 5/21/2007
Thank you, Shirley!


Michele Carlsen   {K:134656} 5/21/2007
This is TRUE Dave.... Scary Too !


Shirley D. Cross   {K:141852} 5/21/2007
You're welcome, Dave!:)


Don Loseke   {K:32503} 5/21/2007
I expect that you are right about paying for this bunch of old barrels, maybe forever. Don.


Aniko Heart   {K:25957} 5/26/2007
In my opinion my Dear Dave...

Award winning image on subject matter and photographic technicalities...

Equal to the image, is your "about"...

No wonder I so Love You! :) :) :)

Hugs~
Ani :(


Dave Arnold   {K:55613} 5/27/2007
Aww, you are too kind, Ani. Thank you.

:)


Gary Hill   {K:33769} 5/27/2007
I once saw a British govt informational film from the early sixties which announced that in the event of a potential nuclear strike all households would be isued with x amount of sandbags and instructions on how to build a protective wall with them! Also suggested that any injured should be driven to the local hospital! So the folly wasn't confined to you guys. Nice and topical, Dave.
Regards, Gary


Dave Arnold   {K:55613} 5/27/2007
Golly, Gary, that is just too funny. Amazing what our governments lead us to believe. And they're still pulling that crap today... Terra Terra Terra... Fear Fear Fear... Kill 'em there before they follow us to the malls....

Makes me sick.

Thanks for the comment...
Dave


Aniko Heart   {K:25957} 5/28/2007
Define "too kind"... :)

Love Ya!
Hugs~
Ani ) x


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