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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Edwarda who wrote (32966)	3/22/1999 8:08:00 AM
From: Sidney Reilly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Edwarda, I also come from a mixed religious background. My dad was protestant who never went to church except once, and my mom Roman Catholic. The one time my dad went to church I asked to go too and he took me. I remember thinking we still had to kneel, that was disappointing. :-) But the following week I asked if we were going but he said he felt funny going. He never went again. We were also baptized into the RC church at my mom's insistence. But we went to public school. I don't remember if it cost money to send us to a Catholic school, but if it did that's why we didn't. I have often thought since growing up that my dad was somehow more jewish than protestant. LOL. We did end up in parochial school after years of pressure from my mom. But my dad told us that if we didn't like it he would pull us out. The nuns must have known this because we were treated better than the other kids. Got away with talking in line or class without punishment, ruler across the knuckles. After a few months though I found my sister one day and asked if she was tired of this stuff. She said it was OK but I said I'm asking to get out. Well, that was all the excuse my dad needed because he pulled us all out and we went back to public school. I remember being in school when Kennedy was shot. One girl cried and cried. I asked her if she knew him because she was crying so hard. She said no she didn't. That was puzzling. :-0 They sent us home right away. Maybe they were expecting nuclear war or something, I don't know. Remember the bomb drills? We went into the halls, sat down against the wall, pulled our knees up and tucked down and covered our heads with our hands. That was our protection from the nuclear blasts! LOL I asked a teacher why we did that. She said in case of war and they drop a bomb. I asked if we would survive if a bomb fell outside the school. She said no. So I said then why do we do this? She just grimaced. This must have been about the time of the Cuban missile crisis. I was in Rochester, NY!!! Come on, those missiles could never get us. Well, I suppose the Russian silo missiles could, coming over the north pole as they would. I have learned since that the magnetic disturbances over the north pole could have confused the russian navigational systems and caused them to go off course. Don't know if that is really true though. We didn't do the bomb drills the following year so it must have been at the time of the Cuban problems. cya, SR