Then I remember watching on TV two years later as the wall's guards stood by allowing people to charge the wall, venting years of anger and frustration, taking hostile blows at the wall with pick axes and sledgehammers.
Today, a small piece of that wall sits on my desk.
The end of the Berlin wall will always be Reagan's greatest accomplishment in my eyes.
Yes, it is. Reagan, Bush (41), Kohl and Gorbatchov share much of the responsibility of the Cold War´s end so soon. I´m sure Poles will argue that Solidarnosc and the Pope have contributed a lot, the East Germans will say it was their protest which brought the wall down, the Hungarians will say it was their opening of the border to Austria, and so on... but for me, without each one of the four mentioned, the Cold War could still concern our minds.