[Military family member]

Can you believe it was 17 years ago?

[alisasny]

Everyone knew it was coming down anyway.....{sarcasm off}

[weegee]

I was unaware that we were on the anniversary of that speech. I heard the speechwriter talk with Laura Ingrahm, I heard the Reagan memorial service yesterday, but I did not hear about this.

[BillF]

What do you suppose Senator Kerry said about Reagan's speech? Bet it was something incredibly negative.

[dawn53]

Tony Snow had an excellent one hour special on Fox about the lead up to Reagan's "Tear Down this Wall" speech.

It aired at midnight last night.

If you get the chance to see it, it's worth the watch.

[Fiddlstix]

BTTT

[stillnoprotestsagainstmuslims]

And on the other side of the fence...

[The Truth Will Make You Free]

I recently read a Reader's Digest article about how this phrase almost didn't make it in the speech. The Pentagon and State Department wanted it out, but Reagan himself left it in "because it was the right thing to do".

[A.A. Cunningham]

[BenLurkin]

BTTT

[ALOHA RONNIE]

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RONNIE gave all = We have it all

http://www.TheAlamoFILM.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=52519


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[Texas Eagle]

The Berlin Wall was probably the most tangible symbol of the Cold War which the Reagan-ophobes insist on giving Mikhail Gorbachev credit for ending. Has anyone been able to produce the document Gorbachev signed ordering the destruction of the Berlin Wall?

Anyone?

Anyone?

Bueller?

[fso301]

How long before Rather/Jennings/Brokaw/Brown/Ammanpour/King come out and remind everyone that in 1987, the only ones who didn't know the Soviets planned to remove the Berlin wall were those fundamentalist Christians.

How long before we tune in to hear Rather informing the public that "Only after repeated prodding by the media did Reagans administration initiate dialog with the Soviets through which the WH realized what the media had been telling them all along which that the Soviets were just beginning a major restructuring of their system including spinning off satellite nations and encouraging German re-unification. Reagans handlers then scrambled to jump on the bandwagon and the "Tear Down This Wall" speech was part of the White Houses attempts to jump on the bandwagon."