but your call for civil defense volunteers was not this it is attacked my plans are made and they don't include waiting around to get killed i'm going to take my family to a place in the country where we'll be safe i think imus patriotic as the next guy a pretty dumb to remain in the city when those bombs start falling name doesn't matter take to the hills with another member of the take to the hills fraternity sees you quite a few of them here some of prey there are the worst of it is that most of them are intelligent people good citizens if you like but they made up their minds without thinking that letting fear push them is pushing them into something pretty close to trees thank god most people don't feel that way but enough of them to make it a serious problem you know there's really nothing to be gained by turning tail and running after an enemy attack first of all of the highways would be about the most dangerous place you could be the second mass evacuation of cities just doesn't work most people don't know that for the reasons they've never thought much about it the third reason is the simplest of all if war comes and we desert our cities we've lost the war only we can help these letter writers see it that way we must make them realize there must be no taking to the hills their own experiences could help them realize it for instance it's easy to imagine what would happen if most of the people in town took to the highways all at once all you have to do is look at some of our sunday traffic jam unless people know better an enemy attack would cause a hundred times as many people to jam the roads add to that the desperate fear and panic that had to be pushing the mob and mr you've got a catastrophe on your hands a civil defense people are just being realistic and not  mass evacuation the roads have to be kept open for rescue work for firefighting and that means every car which is not officially authorized will have to be stopped and moved out of the way as long as i live i won't forget what happened in the last  some european people to build i saw miles after miles of refugees trying to get away from cities under attack all they did was chalk up the road so hardly anything even they couldn't get  and all important the fact that every able bodied person is needed in the city before as well as after an attack putting out fires for example will require help from everyone we must realize that in modern warfare city dwellers find themselves right in the front line after an attack our first responsibility will be to keep our heads and get back to our jobs or each of us has a job to do no matter what happens the people of the city of people think the danger of a lingering radiation is not really very serious after an atomic air burst the danger of radiation and falling debris is over within the now have over and above that we know from the experience of london berlin and other european cities but people didn't even want to leave their city most of those who did leave soon began trickling back into town of course a few people should be evacuated small children the aged infirm so on these people should be moved by one terribly by their family it's not during an attack of course but the able bodied person must stay and help modern court martial as a civilian it would not only be treasonable but it would mean having to live with the knowledge that in deserving irresponsibility we failed yourself your family your friends your city deserving our cities would be handing the enemy a victory far greater and less costly to them than they could ever achieve the bomb damage alone their very idea in attacking our cities would be to destroy our will to fight the enemy knows that a city deserted b people its a city robbed of its power to resist its power to produce the enemy knows as we do that in an american city of today each of us the pens and all the other directly or indirectly each of our jobs depend on all the jobs of the others our biggest job will be to continue putting out equipment and fighting gear our nation depends on to desert the day to throw away our most feared weapon america's power to produce there's no getting away from it when the time comes each one of us must stay in our cities and fight i wish there were some other way but there's yes there are some pretty grim prospect this hell of an enemy a tactical smashing out of the sky at any time and every last one of us will have to be ready to face what happens then it's only a suffering and misery broken homes death dangers that used to belong only to soldiers but it's got to be able to take it and come back fighting everything we hope for everything we believe everything america has touched will depend on us and what we do know a lot of people behind the iron curtain i wondering whether we can take a different tact carefully measuring our courage a capacity to fight our capacity for sacrifice they think they have the answers