Detective Lana LeMons, of the Lake County Sheriff’s Office, leads a rescue team down a hallway during a mass-shooting drill at Barrington High School on March 20, 2015. (Brian OMahoney / Pioneer Press)
Here’s a memory from my school days that I just can’t seem to forget.
From first grade on we were taught so-called air raid drills. We were told to duck under our desks, sit cross-legged on the floor, bend our heads down and cover our knees with our hands.
Sometimes we were told we could be in the hallway, and the older students — eighth-graders — would cover us.
This was the Atomic Age when the threat of nuclear war was a real possibility. My mother often recalled watching President Kennedy’s Cuban Missile Crisis speech, claiming when he finished she said, “We’re with you.”
Some adults had their own bomb shelters back then. But most were like my mom, willing to go up in a flash for the idea of America.
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