Lio by Mark Tatulli for August 29, 2019

I grew up in the “Duck & Cover” decade – I remember hiding under my school desk for drills and being assured that doing so would “protect” me from those nasty, old bombs and their fallout (yeah, right!)

I was also employed for thirty-five years with a company who was considered a “Defense Contractor” and so the building in which I worked was considered a “Defense Facility”. And the guards at the doors were instructed to shoot anyone without a badge pass attempting to enter in the event of a national emergency – and on the corner of our building was one of those “Fallout Shelter” signs (and, yes, we had the requisite ‘fallout shelter’ supplies in our sub-basement!)

Crazy; simply crazy.