air raid siren

[RHClarke]

Hi Vic,

One can have hours of fun and meet all sorts of folk by toying with such a powerful device. Being a cold war brat, I remember living on northern Canadian air bases/stations and going thru the checklist for the great Russian air attack. I suppose we were too young to ask why we were going thru the drills, and at that time, one didn't ask teacher questions, one answered the questions.

I suppose it is nice that most folk have no idea of what the siren's purpose was and the paranoia it produced in the western adult population in the early to mid '60s. As a child, I was blissfully unaware of the Red Threat, and didn't understand why anyone would want to flatten places like CFS Holberg. For all I knew, the "damned Commies" could have been a softball team that played at the base...

Anyway, it is nice to see our Cold War relic (the siren, not Mike)silently (mostly) guarding the entrance to the museum.

R