The Last Word
Richardson, Laura
THE LAST WORD What About the Children? One day in April, midway through Ground Zero Week, a letter arrived at The Progressive from Glenn W. Hawkes, a visiting professor of sociology at Norwich...
...We thought it would be, as he said, a way to help spread the word...
...I am the father of two healthy boys," he went on, "and I intend to do all I can to see that they will die of old age...
...He thought parents could begin by sending the form off to school with their children...
...Is anyone trained to administer them...
...We also know about some of the psychological effects—the price we're already paying in terms of self-identity among adolescents...
...The effectiveness of the form arises from the deep, personal sense of responsibility a parent holds for a child," he wrote...
...He sent us a form that he and some other parents have been handing out in Vermont...
...We know of the physical effects of radiation on children—but we've not helped spread the word very effectively...
...One day in April, midway through Ground Zero Week, a letter arrived at The Progressive from Glenn W. Hawkes, a visiting professor of sociology at Norwich University, a private military college in Vermont...
...He wanted to get people to "eat, drink, and sleep this question," he said, to ponder their children's fate every time they passed a playground, nursed a scraped knee, or saw an empty stroller by an apartment door...
...I have been wondering about the question of the children," Hawkes wrote...
...Have medical supplies been laid in...
...If that didn't sit well, they could at least put the questions it raised to school administrators: What do the schools plan to do in the aftermath of a nuclear war...
Vol. 46 • June 1982 • No. 6
