I think you're right about their being on the "Marry-Go-Round".

The Dayton thing was an exercise for an MEU (Marine Expeditionary Unit)
rotating back from Bosnia.  It was a Homeland Security thing to simulate an
attack on a US Military base in an urban environment (Wright-Patterson AFB).
I can't find a thing on any news source web site.  Too weird.

Nah, it didn't scare anyone.  I heard that some local college theater
students were hired to play victims, but I wasn't involved in the "hands on"
stuff.  My job was just to watch and learn certain aspects of "first
response" at the local level.  Another group of folks are supposed to write
"train the trainer" curricula for other Emergency Management people, based
on this scenario, and another guy and I are going to edit for content.

Beth's article she forwarded about "Homeland Security and PWD" is really
good.  It just underscores how woefully UNprepared we are for all possible
contingencies.  After being involved in this stuff for a month, you wouldn't
believe how disjointed everything is.  For example, the Feds are wanting to
distribute potassium iodide tablets to all US residents living within a
ten-mile radius of any nuclear facility.  If a terrorist pops a nuke power
plant, people are supposed to take the tablets.  This will cause the thyroid
gland to be exposed to a "safe" level of iodine, which will cause the
thyroid gland NOT to uptake the "bad" iodine nuclide.  Trouble is, iodine is
only one of several nasty nuclides that would be released in the radioactive
steam fart.  I heard on the news this morning that Illinois (has a large
quantity of nuke power plants) isn't going to buy into the Fed program for
the reason I just stated:   radioactive iodine is just one of several
issues.  They are making a lot of political hay about it over in
Springfield, due to the upcoming election.

It all gets so silly after a while, doesn't it?


-K

-----Original Message-----
From: Kathy Salkin [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Monday, September 23, 2002 9:53 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: To Put Things in Perspective...A Hundred Years Ago...


I think they were from Tenn, I can't remember.  I do remember they were a
couple who'd been married before and this was the second (or so) marriage
for
both of them.  The Brady Bunch they weren't.

No, I didn't see the "attack" in Dayton.  Did they get (or scare) any
innocent
victims?

Kat

On Mon, 23 Sep 2002 09:45:20 -0400 "Cleveland, Kyle E."
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> I think the series ran twice.  We watched the
> entire run the first time
> around (about a year ago, I think).  I was
> surprised that the California
> "yuppies" had such a major transformation,
> while the family from Tenn. (whom
> I thought would do the best) really came
> unravelled.  Kat, are they the
> folks that split?  I remember the lady in that
> family as being fairly petty
> and mean-spirited toward her husband.
>
> -Kyle
>
> (Good to be back in the "world" after a week's
> worth of simulations and
> exercises.  Anybody see the Marines "attack"
> Dayton, OH on CNN?  I heard CNN
> were covering the "festivities", but we didn't
> have access to regular
> media.)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kathy Salkin
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Monday, September 23, 2002 9:37 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: To Put Things in Perspective...A
> Hundred Years Ago...
>
>
> Saw an episode at a friend's house one evening,
> it was rather interesting.
> Of
> course, it wasn't "really real," but it was as
> close as one could get to
> history in this day and age.  However, I found
> it doubly interesting when I
> heard later that the stress of living without
> modern conveniences drove one
> couple to separate. Which is an option our
> ancestors didn't have, or chose
> not
> to take because of society's censure.
>
> Kat
>
> On Mon, 23 Sep 2002 08:16:52 -0400 "Barber,
> Kenneth L."
> wrote:
>
> > Never heard of it.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Elizabeth H. Thiers
> > [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> > Sent: Monday, September 23, 2002 7:13 AM
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Re: To Put Things in Perspective...A
> > Hundred Years Ago...
> >
> > Finally got to this.  Has anyone watched the
> > PBS shows Frontier House or
> > 1900 House.  It's where they take people and
> > place them in the world of the
> > turn of the last century.  Frontier House is
> > set in the American Frontier
> > time and 1900 House is set in 1900 England.
> If
> > you ever hear of people
> > talking about the good old days, have them
> > watch those shows.
> >
> > beth T. the OT
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: St. John's University Cerebral Palsy
> List
> > [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On
> Behalf
> > Of Kathy Salkin
> > Sent: Friday, September 13, 2002 3:15 PM
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: To Put Things in Perspective...A
> > Hundred Years Ago...
> >
> >
> > A Hundred Years Ago..
> >
> > ..The average life expectancy in the United
> > States was forty-seven.
> >
> > ..Only 14 percent of the homes in the United
> > States had a bathtub.
> >
> > ..Only 8 percent of the homes had a
> telephone.
> > A three-minute call from
> > Denver
> > to New York City cost eleven dollars.
> >
> > ..There were only 8,000 cars in the US and
> only
> > 144 miles of paved roads.
> > The
> > maximum speed limit in most cities was ten
> mph.
> >
> > ..Alabama, Mississippi, Iowa, and Tennessee
> > were each more heavily populated
> > than California. With a mere 1.4 million
> > residents, California was only the
> > twenty-first most populous state in the
> Union.
> >
> > ..The tallest structure in the world was the
> > Eiffel Tower.
> >
> > ..The average wage in the US was twenty-two
> > cents an hour. The average US
> > worker made between $200 and $400 per year.
> >
> > ..A competent accountant could expect to earn
> > $2000 per year, a dentist
> > $2500
> > per year, a veterinarian between $1500 and
> > $4000 per year, and a mechanical
> > engineer about $5000 per year.
> >
> > ..More than 95 percent of all births in the
> > United States took place at
> > home.
> >
> > ..Ninety percent of all US physicians had no
> > college education. Instead,
> > they
> > attended medical schools, many of which were
> > condemned in the press and by
> > the
> > government as "substandard."
> >
> > ..Sugar cost four cents a pound. Eggs were
> > fourteen cents a dozen. Coffee
> > cost
> > fifteen cents a pound.
> >
> > ..Most women only washed their hair once a
> > month and used borax or egg yolks
> > for shampoo.
> >
> > ..Canada passed a law prohibiting poor people
> > from entering the country for
> > any reason, either as travelers or
> immigrants.
> >
> > ..The five leading causes of death in the US
> > were: 1. Pneumonia and
> > influenza,
> > 2. Tuberculosis, 3. Diarrhea, 4. Heart
> disease,
> > 5. Stroke.
> >
> > ..The American flag had 45 stars. Arizona,
> > Oklahoma, New Mexico, Hawaii and
> > Alaska hadn't been admitted to the Union yet.
> >
> > ..Drive-by shootings -- in which teenage boys
> > galloped down the street on
> > horses and started randomly shooting at
> houses,
> > carriages, or anything else
> > that caught their fancy -- were an
> > ongoing problem in Denver and other cities in
> > the West.
> >
> > ..The population of Las Vegas, Nevada was
> > thirty. The remote desert
> > community
> > was inhabited by only a handful of ranchers
> and
> > their families.
> >
> > ..Plutonium, insulin, and antibiotics hadn't
> > been discovered yet. Scotch
> > tape,
> > crossword puzzles, canned beer, and iced tea
> > hadn't been invented.
> >
> > ..There was no Mother's Day or Father's Day.
> >
> > ..One in ten US adults couldn't read or
> write.
> > Only 6 percent of all
> > Americans
> > had graduated from high school.
> >
> > ..Some medical authorities warned that
> > professional seamstresses were apt to
> > become sexually aroused by the steady rhythm,
> > hour after hour, of the sewing
> > machine's foot pedals. They recommended
> > slipping bromide-which was thought
> > to
> > diminish sexual desire-into the women's
> > drinking water.
> >
> > ..Marijuana, heroin, and morphine were all
> > available over the counter at
> > corner drugstores. According to one
> pharmacist,
> > "Heroin clears the
> > complexion,
> > gives buoyancy to the mind, regulates the
> > stomach and the bowels, and is, in
> > fact, a
> > perfect guardian of health."
> >
> > ..Coca-Cola contained cocaine instead of
> > caffeine.
> >
> > ..Punch-card data processing had recently
> been
> > developed, and early
> > predecessors of the modern computer were used
> > for the first time by the
> > government to help compile the 1900 census.
> >
> > ..Eighteen percent of households in the
> United
> > States had at least one
> > full-time servant or domestic.
> >
> > ..There were about 230 reported murders in
> the
> > US
> > annually.
> >
> >
> > NOTE:  Upon reflection, I'm glad I'm living
> now
> > and not a hundred years ago.
> >
>