msquebanh, (edited ) I remember being frozen & terrified in elementary school, jr high & high school years - whenever they did fire or emergency drills involving really loud alarms going off. In elementary school, I was abandoned during drills & ppl only came to rescue me - after all other kids were back in classes. I was still left alone, terrified, by myself, in dark & empty area. The alarm noises terrified me because I still had war traumas & I ran away from school & hid under a cement deck on first drills.