The Wall Came Tumbling Down
Nov. 9th, 2009 08:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
edschweppeTwenty years ago today, the Berlin Wall fell.
I still remember watching the live coverage of Berliners partying as they climbed atop the Wall and started hacking away at it with pickaxes. I'd gotten out of the Navy only a few months earlier, and I'm not sure that anyone seriously considered that the Warsaw Pact might fall apart peacefully. Yet there it was unfolding on CNN ...
I still remember watching the live coverage of Berliners partying as they climbed atop the Wall and started hacking away at it with pickaxes. I'd gotten out of the Navy only a few months earlier, and I'm not sure that anyone seriously considered that the Warsaw Pact might fall apart peacefully. Yet there it was unfolding on CNN ...
