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BumRushDaShow

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7. That was my first thought.

Reply to LetMyPeopleVote (Reply #6)

Fri Mar 20, 2026, 12:47 PM

4 hrs ago

Neither of them were born. My mother would mention it every once in awhile. She was 11 at the time (would have been 96 this year) and she talked about the announcement on the radio (and how the country literally began to do "black out" type stuff with the drapes, etc).

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