..... I remember the day exactly..... I was sitting in the library reading a book by Freud when the librarian walked through our little group and said that the wall had fallen.......

...... I was quite pissed off since I was scheduled to leave for bootcamp in five months and was hoping to do my part in bringing down the wall.......

..... but still, I am glas that it happened the way that it did...... good god, has that been twenty years?......
Eric | Homepage | 11.10.09 - 9:00 pm | #

.... glad...
Eric | Homepage | 11.10.09 - 9:01 pm | #

I remember hearing about the wall falling. At the time, I had a German acquaintance who was living in the US. When her mother called to tell her the news, she thought at first that her mother was joking.
Rahel | Homepage | 11.11.09 - 8:46 am | #

At the time of the dismantling of the Wall my brother and I had a conversation in which we agreed that if the world felt safer, it was sadly mistaken. We sort of understood that the end of the Soviet Union would inevitably lead to a far more dangerous world, now that it was no longer under the patronage of the US on the one hand and the USSR on the other. The main comment was - if people think maintaining preparedness for a nuclear war is expensive, they are going to hate how much conventional wars really cost.

Now this is not to say that we were so brilliant that we could foresee the current state of affairs, with the West squaring off against radical Islam. But we did know that somehow, the world was about to become far more complex, not less so.

Still, it was a great thing for Germany - no doubt about that.
Houston Steve | 11.11.09 - 9:57 am | #