Cold War History

One of the main things that was talked about regarding the cold war's effect in America, was the bomb shelters that were created by the Americans.  My mom said that most of her neighbors in Georgia had them in their backyards but she personally didn't have them.  

As a college student at Stanford, one of the international campuses that she went to was in Germany.  While in Germany she saw the Berlin wall, so she said that it was really weird when it came down.  Although it didn't have as much of an affect on my sister and me, I think that she felt very similar after 9/11, because we, as a family, had been in a taxi driving right past the Twin Towers just a few weeks before the tragedy.  The feeling that "we have just seen that and now it is gone," is a very weird one, and a lot of the Germans probably felt the same way when the wall went down.