[jmcenanly]

How many students today are even aware that this happened, or that a nation had to surround a free city to prevent its own citizens from seeking freedom?

[fatnotlazy]

Some schools don’t even teach history. Others teach a revisionist history and they won’t bother with something like the fall of the Berlin Wall because it happened in a foreign country, so who cares what went on over there?

And since teachers unions are communist, do they really want to teach our kids about a communist defeat? Might be embarrassing.

[Fiji Hill]

This was a favorite "oldie" in Southern California for years after its chart run.

West of the Wall--Toni Fisher (1962)

[VanDeKoik]

How many students today are even aware that this happened, or that a nation had to surround a free city to prevent its own citizens from seeking freedom?

Seeing how many say that a border fence with Mexico is somehow the equivalent, I would say not many. I would not be shocked if schools barely touch on the subject in great detail.

[1066AD]

Anyone in the Dallas/Ft Worth area can see a piece of the wall in the grounds of the Hilton Anatole hotel on Stemmons Frwy.

[Ace's Dad]

German teens who tour our Florida Keys Air Museum know about the Wall, and even more surprising, they are taught about the Berlin airlift that saved the city from Russian blockades after WWII.

[The Antiyuppie]

“How many students today are even aware that this happened, or that a nation had to surround a free city to prevent its own citizens from seeking freedom?”

Ah, that was a brief, shining moment of freedom before the forces of darkness and oppression returned - but this time, they came from the West!