It was a test, we knew it was a test, and we knew it was coming. No one really thought more deeply about it than that. Growing up, all of us lived though the Wednesdays alarms. Most people at the senior center lived here growing up. This isn’t a place people move to. Here in my home town every Wednesday the siren went off at noon. It was just a test. It was kind of comforting to know it was working and in place. Back then I lived in the country not town but you could still hear it. It was for tornados or air raids. The few times it went off not on a Wednesday everyone knew it was serious and turned on radios to get the news. I guess we thought of todays test the same way. It was a shared moment.