[MBZ] OT CONELRAD ALERT!!!

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[MBZ] OT Conelrad Alert!!!

2013-05-01 Thread Rich Thomas
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Re: [MBZ] OT CONELRAD Alert!

2011-11-10 Thread Dan Penoff
"drop and cover!" I remember those drills as a first grader... Dan who has his surplus Geiger counters in the closet for just such an occasion... Sent from my iPhone On Nov 10, 2011, at 10:07 AM, Max wrote: > Wow you gents are old. > -- > Max Dillon > Charleston SC > '95 E300, '87 300TD >

Re: [MBZ] OT CONELRAD Alert!

2011-11-10 Thread WILTON
Just well-experienced. Wilton - Original Message - From: "Max" To: "Mercedes Discussion List" Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2011 10:07 AM Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT CONELRAD Alert! Wow you gents are old. -- Max Dillon Charleston SC

Re: [MBZ] OT CONELRAD Alert!

2011-11-10 Thread Max
Wow you gents are old. -- Max Dillon Charleston SC '95 E300, '87 300TD ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://ma

Re: [MBZ] OT CONELRAD Alert!

2011-11-10 Thread Dan Penoff
First color TV was a Magnavox we got in 1969. I remember it well. Dan Sent from my iPhone On Nov 9, 2011, at 11:24 PM, Dieselhead <126die...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> One of my earliest memories as a child was of JFK's funeral. >> > > I was home sick from grade school, but I was well enough to

Re: [MBZ] OT CONELRAD Alert!

2011-11-10 Thread WILTON
Yep, me, too. Wilton - Original Message - From: "Dieselhead" <126die...@gmail.com> To: "Mercedes Discussion List" Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2011 11:51 PM Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT CONELRAD Alert! I remember the Bay of Pigs and the Cuban missile stand

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2011-11-09 Thread Dieselhead
I remember the Bay of Pigs and the Cuban missile standoff too. I was on ground alert with nuke-loaded B-52's at Robins AFB, GA. Wilton Bay of Pigs was not one of JFKs shining moments. Can you imagine the media frenzy if a President Bush had done that? Or Jimay Cahtah's hostage non-rescu

Re: [MBZ] OT CONELRAD Alert!

2011-11-09 Thread Dieselhead
One of my earliest memories as a child was of JFK's funeral. I was home sick from grade school, but I was well enough to be in the basement taking apart .22 shells and melting the lead bullets into ingots. And they want to keep kids now from lifting a hand until they are 16/18/21 and the

Re: [MBZ] OT CONELRAD Alert!

2011-11-09 Thread Rich Thomas
t: Wednesday, November 09, 2011 10:52 PM Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT CONELRAD Alert! One of my earliest memories as a child was of JFK's funeral. I hadn't started school yet, but was marooned in the house as I had the mumps or chicken pox, and I was pissed that all the daytime (cartoon

Re: [MBZ] OT CONELRAD Alert!

2011-11-09 Thread WILTON
I was on ground alert with nuke-loaded B-52's at Robins AFB, GA. Wilton - Original Message - From: "Dan Penoff" To: "Mercedes Discussion List" Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2011 10:52 PM Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT CONELRAD Alert! One of my earliest memorie

Re: [MBZ] OT CONELRAD Alert!

2011-11-09 Thread Dan Penoff
One of my earliest memories as a child was of JFK's funeral. I hadn't started school yet, but was marooned in the house as I had the mumps or chicken pox, and I was pissed that all the daytime (cartoon) programming was pre-empted by his funeral. Other than that I don't recall a whole lot about

Re: [MBZ] OT CONELRAD Alert!

2011-11-09 Thread Rick Knoble
> Max Dillon > (who's Dad kept food stockpiles sealed in plastic in the basement after the > Cuban excitement) Probably not a bad idea at this time in history either. Rick ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used

Re: [MBZ] OT CONELRAD Alert!

2011-11-09 Thread Max
Should have said Truman vice Eisenhower, here's the Wikipedia entry: CONELRAD (Control of Electromagnetic Radiation) was a method of emergency broadcasting to the public of the United States in the event of enemy attack during the Cold War. It was intended to serve two purposes; to prevent Sovie

Re: [MBZ] OT CONELRAD Alert!

2011-11-09 Thread Rich Thomas
No but I did see JFKennedy drive by when I was like 8 yr old. They made us schoolkids stand out by the street waving flags when he went by. This was probably not long after he had been elected, I think I was in 2nd grade. I also remember the day he was shot, my teacher was really affected by

Re: [MBZ] OT CONELRAD Alert!

2011-11-09 Thread Max
So, did you ever meet Eisenhower? -- Max Dillon Charleston SC '95 E300, '87 300TD Rich Thomas wrote: OK I just heard it, and it was definitely a CONELRAD alert, it even had the same scratchy, staticky, barely understandable AM-during-bad-sunspot-activity lo-fi minimal-modulation quality that

Re: [MBZ] OT CONELRAD Alert!

2011-11-09 Thread Dieselhead
Yes, but this time it is from within. See agendadocumentary.com/trailer/ or go to the libary and check out "the enemy within" OK I just heard it, and it was definitely a CONELRAD alert, it even had the same scratchy, staticky, barely understandable AM-during-bad-sunspot-activity lo-fi min

[MBZ] OT CONELRAD Alert!

2011-11-09 Thread Rich Thomas
OK I just heard it, and it was definitely a CONELRAD alert, it even had the same scratchy, staticky, barely understandable AM-during-bad-sunspot-activity lo-fi minimal-modulation quality that the CONELRAD alerts did back when. Maybe it was from a time warp channeling 50s transmissions to duck