When I was a child we were all terrified of the Russians, specifically, of the bombs from that country, which we believed were aimed directly at my classroom in St. James Major grammar school. We were taught to crouch under our small, wooden desks and bury our heads ostrich-like under our arms.
I do not claim to have been the brightest child. However, I knew that there was no real possibility that my arms and my flimsy desk could possibly save me from the shards of shattered glass that would be
Adele Elliott, a New Orleans native, moved to Columbus after Hurricane Katrina.
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