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Today is not the anniversary of the East Germans closing the border between East Germany (that chunk of Germany that the USSR occupied following WWII) and West Germany (that chunk occupied by the USA, UK and France). That was August 13, 1961.
It's not the anniversary of the East Germans reopening that border, either. That was November 9, 1989, a few months after I'd gotten out of the US Navy. I remember watching people dancing atop the Berlin Wall on TV and thinking to myself that my time in the Navy was truly worth while; we'd managed to bring down the Wall (and soon thereafter, the Soviet Union) without a shooting war between NATO and the Warsaw Pact.
But today is the day when the Berlin Wall has been down as long as it was up. A good reminder that hope sometimes does pay off.
Today is not the anniversary of the East Germans closing the border between East Germany (that chunk of Germany that the USSR occupied following WWII) and West Germany (that chunk occupied by the USA, UK and France). That was August 13, 1961.
It's not the anniversary of the East Germans reopening that border, either. That was November 9, 1989, a few months after I'd gotten out of the US Navy. I remember watching people dancing atop the Berlin Wall on TV and thinking to myself that my time in the Navy was truly worth while; we'd managed to bring down the Wall (and soon thereafter, the Soviet Union) without a shooting war between NATO and the Warsaw Pact.
But today is the day when the Berlin Wall has been down as long as it was up. A good reminder that hope sometimes does pay off.