Tornado Alley (PROG)

[janice shell]

Yes, there was a lot of hysteria.

One evening when I was a junior in high school, I was watching the evening news. It featured the usual footage of a couple of U.S. Army infantryman walking carefully through a dense Vietnamese jungle, swinging their guns from side to side. Fortunately they didn't step on any mines, and nobody sprang up to shoot them. I'd seen it a million times.

And suddenly I thought: This is REALLY STUPID.

Naturally, when I went off to college, just about everyone I met thought it was stupid.