Writer's Block
Writer's Block
The "Cold War" was something for history books when I was in school - and I was born in 1980. I didn't understand the big deal about the reunification, indeed I probably thought it was a unification. I remember the Challenger incident better and see it as more significant to my generation. I was in kindergarten when it happened, what does that say about what influenced me growing up? Come on over to Do most LJers even have a point of comparison? Do we even remember what the Cold War was like anymore? In an era where Indiana Jones survives ground zero through a lead-lined fridge and farmers on J There was nothing seemingly simple about the Cold War. Never in the history of the planet Earth were the human race so dangerously close to Thermal Nuclear Holocaust. The United States of America an I was born in '80. I was in 4th grade when the Berlin wall came down; I remember at the time that a lot of people who had traveled to Berlin were coming back with chunks of the wall. I remember be the simplicity of the cold war? are you serious? i would like to see this question asked to afghans. for one, my father was on submarines during the cold war and i can say with much assurance, noth
What drugs is the person that came up with this question on, and where can I get some?
As I was growing up and oblivious to it all until I saw The Hoff on TV singing at the collapse of the Berlin Wall, I can't really say I knew what it was like to live day to day in such conditions. But Dear Magdalena,
The insanity of this question is amazing. How am I ever going to sleep again? Yes, at least the Soviets kept all these crazies in check so we didn't have to. |