Sounds like what I experienced, those drills were strange. Don't recall ever feeling scared, I enjoyed the break from the normal boredom.

@silverotter11 Yes, they were just drills, like fire drills, for which we never had a fire, but the break was nice! When I got older, we no longer had air raid drills, but I had to furnish a map of the route I walked to school and back to the government, because my dad worked on top secret information (he designed missiles for Boeing) and they were afraid I might be kidnapped and traded for those missile plans. That was scary! Can't remember praying though, but I never walked the same route to/from school again!

@Julie808 YIKES! That would be scary! You grew up in the PNW?

@silverotter11 Yep! West Seattle.

@Julie808 That is one area of Seattle I never lived in. Here's the list. I moved a lot.

Greenlake and the far north end of the Greenlake area
Capitol Hill, 3 different apartments
Eastlake
Beacon Hill
University District east of the cemetary-shared a house
Ravenna-owned a house
Lake City
Bothell
Bellevue
Renton

@silverotter11 Wow, you moved around almost as much as I did. Only place we might have crossed paths is Bellevue where I lived in the late 1970s-early 1980s. I worked at Bellevue Square and Crossroad's mall, after moving from Federal Way and before moving to Edmonds, Everett, Lynnwood and then Kauai. I used to love walking around Greenlake and the Burke Gilman Trail near Bothell. My daughter lives in Renton, so I'm there a lot. Attended a party at Jimmy Hendrix's grave there at the cemetary near my daughter's house, many many years ago! Still enjoy walking through that cemetary when I'm visiting.

@Julie808 I was in Bellevue in late 1975 - 1976. North of NE8th off 148th. I was working in Kirkland for a guy named Gary Schuster, he owned a couple of printing firms.