OH sweet sweet goldmine of U.S. history, how you never fail me!
I was recently loaned by my awesome roommate an artifact from her family history: Personal and Family Survival: Civil Defense Adult Education Course Student Manual. Publication date: 1963. *droool*
Topics covered, edited for conciseness by yours truly, include: Warning and Communications, Weapons and Fallout, Community Shelters, Preparing for Living in a Community Shelter, Home Shelters, Rehabilitation After Emerging from the Shelter, Local Plans, and Survival on the Farm.
Spoiler alert! "Tools that can be used for rescue are shovels, crowbars, hammers, screwdrivers, pliers, ropes and buckets. These tools might be required to clear exits from basements of buildings." Mmm, shovels and CROWBARS! How exciting! If you're as excited as I am about Personal and Family Survival a la 1963, you can get the entire online version here. Of course, that one doesn't have the one thing that makes history the most exciting: the personal note scribbled on the notes page in the back of the faded green booklet. That note, in the case of Amanda's book, is the title of this post.
Of course the Office of Civil Defense was abolished on July 20, 1979 (because let's be honest, only 27% of twitter users care about war these days anyway) when it was repurposed as...drum roll please...FEMA.
Haha. Classy.
So, if you have loads of spare time (which you presumably do if you're reading this), feel free to join me in taking one of their Independent Study Classes. We can compare notes.
If you only have enough spare time to read this blog and nothing else, then I'll give you something besides a FEMA course to look forward to: the upcoming Tiffany List produced by Melana'he Martin. Wait for it...
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