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Kerry regales Berliners with tales of divided city
AP via Charter.net ^ | Tuesday, February 26, 2013 6:28 AM EST | MATTHEW LEE

Posted on 02/26/2013 7:47:29 AM PST by Pan_Yan

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Speaking at a town hall meeting Tuesday, Kerry spoke a few sentences of passable German to the delight of a crowd in a packed Internet cafe before regaling the audience with tales of his boyhood in Berlin in 1954.

He recalled a clandestine bicycle ride into communist East Berlin. "I saw the difference between east and west. I saw the people wearing darker clothing. There were fewer cars. I didn't feel the energy or the movement."

When he returned home, Kerry said, his father "got very upset with me and said: `You could have created an international incident. I could have lost my job.' So I lost my passport, and I was grounded and I never made another trip like that."

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Germany; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: berlin; bho44; germany; kerry; sos; soskerry
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To: cripplecreek

LOL


41 posted on 02/26/2013 10:28:57 AM PST by SusaninOhio
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To: cripplecreek

lol.


42 posted on 02/26/2013 10:34:36 AM PST by TADSLOS (The Event Horizon has come and gone. Buckle up and hang on.)
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To: 11th Commandment
how could anyone ride a bike out of East Berlin?

Think how many people died trying to get out of East Berlin... if only they had watched him and done just as he did!

43 posted on 02/26/2013 12:52:06 PM PST by Former Fetus (Saved by grace through faith)
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