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40 YEARS AGO
October 7, 1965
The first class of the Fall session of Radiological Monitor Training Courses will be held Monday, October 18th, at 7:30 p.m. at Civil defense Headquarters, 2nd floor, Municipal Building in Culpeper. The Radiological Monitor Course provides training in the detection, measuring, recording and reporting of radioactive intensity in Culpeper County in case of a massive nuclear attack upon the United States. Ten fallout monitoring stations are either in existence, or will be provided, in the general areas of Jeffersonton, Brandy Station, Lignum, Richardsville, Mitchells, Smiths Market, Griffinsburg, Gourdvine church, Rixeyville and the center of town in Culpeper. Each station must be manned by four qualified Radiological Monitors. Each qualified monitor will be encouraged to take his immediate family to the station with him when reporting for actual duty after a nucl .r attack where they will be well protected against intense radioactivity. The monitor course consists of 16 hours of instruction given from 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays for two and two-thirds weeks. The total requirement for monitors in Culpeper County is 150. Ninety-nine monitors are presently trained and available for this duty. Since Radiological Monitor training and participation in tests, refresher courses and actual duty performance are. of a volunteer nature, the success of this program depends upon the support of all citizens of Culpeper county. ...
How Patriotic Are Young Americans?
The recent rush to the altar prompted by President Johnson’s Aug. 26 deadline on draft exemptions for married men raised a question as to whether the nation’s youth today are as patriotic as the youth of other generations. There are arguments on both sides of the question. But the best answer probably would be that if the modem young American is on the average as patriotic as his parents or grandparents, it would be a miracle. There are a great many things working against love of country today. Especially against the kind of love that make( s) men willing to fight and die for their nation on a distant battlefield. The particular nature of the war in Viet Nam fails to inspire in many the flame of patriotism kindles in youth by other conflicts in which the United States has been involved. It is a war in which are no battle fronts, little opportunity for personal glory, no key territorial objectives offering the chance for immediate victories and only the most obscure longterm goals to aim for as the “ultimate victory”. In addition, there is the knowledge of the Korean conflict. This was tactically a different type of war. But it was one in which thousands of Americans were killed and wounded for a seemingly worthless cause. Youths have a hard time understanding the necessity for such sacrifice of life when the fighting apparently leaves things about as they were. Conditions at home aren’t conducive to patriotism, either. This isn’t a total war, in which everybody has his shoulder toiydieel,
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