Growing up in Los Angeles, I remember the
last Friday 10:00 a.m. civil defense sirens going off. I
always thought that if the Soviets were going to attack us, the
last Friday at 10 o'clock would be the time to do it.
Everyone would think it was a test.
The sirens have long been silent. The
system no longer works. It was disconnected in 1985.
However, most of the sirens still dot the landscape, monuments to
the Cold War.
