Siren's Song?

[Joe Allonby]

We'll attack at noon. They'll think it's lunch.


On 11/1/05, ruudsaurins at aol.com <ruudsaurins at aol.com> wrote:
>
> A squeaming comes aquoss this guy......
>  ......and its while of the list....as a child growing up (trying to) in
> suburban Chicago, I was fascinated by the periodic testing of the civil
> defence siren whose piercing noise (screaming?) could not be missed and
> would interrupt whatever was going on at the time. Since it was never
> accompanied by any air raids, it assumed the peculiar traits of being
> simultaneously obnoxious and reassuring. It was as if our government wished
> to let us know in no uncertain terms that they could warn us if needed.
>  I was always puzzled by the "screaming" at the opening of GR, knowing
> that the V-2 was faster than sound. That the screaming could be a siren
> never occurred to me. Now (Thanx!, posters!) it seems quite possible that
> the screaming is a siren, and that the inspiration may have been TRP's
> adolescent exposure to the civil defence sirens of Long Island, assuming
> they employed the same technology. Does anyone out there know if Long Island
> had those obnoxious little buggers?
>  truly,
>  ruud
>
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