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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If he had is way, Berlin would still be divided.
Did he get a Purple Heart for scraping his knee when he fell off his bike?
FACT CHECK! How could anyone inadvertently ride a bike into East Berlin. But in the slight chance this could happen, how could anyone ride a bike out of East Berlin?
FACT CHECK! How could anyone inadvertently ride a bike into East Berlin. But in the slight chance this could happen, how could anyone ride a bike out of East Berlin?
1946 Communications Squadron, Tempelhof Central Airport, 1984-1988.
Wall didn’t go up until 1961, it would have been very simple to cross into East Berlin at the time. In most cases, as easy as crossing the street.
Did he sneek them a peek at his lucky hat? Maybe toss a few medals?
This is the World of Commander McBragg
Your hair will curl in the World of McBragg.
He fights monsters galore
And then asks for still more
Or so says the brag of McBragg.
When on the hill the marines plant a flag
They may be led by Commander McBragg.
With a cannon in hand
He can beat any band
Or so says the brag of McBragg.
Fencing and fighting and round table knighting
And slaying of dragons, too.
Shipping and sailing and great harpoon whaling
There’s nothing McBragg can’t do.
Hunting and trapping and gold miner mapping
And flying to Timbuktu.
Roping and riding and Indian guiding
Commander McBragg comes through.
This is the World of Commander McBragg
Your head will whirl in the World of McBragg.
He can do anything
In his world he’s a king
Or so says the brag of McBragg.
“Some of the East German police were rude and suspicious. Others were suspicious and rude.”
Forgive me if I find this story literally as fantastic as his Walter Mitty-esque “Christmas in Cambodia”.
John Kerry is almost as much of an embarassment as his boss.
I think he would be more like Dr. Smith from Lost in Space. By stowing away he would have thrown the weight estimates off, thrown the ship off course, and cried "The pain! The pain!" like he had been hit in the butt with some Vietnamese rice.
Forgive me if I find this story literally as fantastic as his Walter Mitty-esque “Christmas in Cambodia”.
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John Kerry is almost as much of an embarassment as his boss.
Did you mean “Spartan”, I thought Leonadis dismissed the Athenians.
Yes, American silver spoon babies on bicycles used to slip into East Berlin undetected all the time.
I can hear Joseph Cotten's voice in the background, "I never knew the old Vienna before the war, with its Strauss music, its glamour and easy charm - Constantinople suited me better..."
This story reminds me of a fat American CEO I once knew who, after a seven day visit to Bombay, came back and addressed an audience of Indian businessmen telling them “everything about India you need to know”.
If you see the movie "One, Two, Three" which took place about a year before the Wall went up, it showed people coming in and out of East Berlin rather easily....(Just as long as you don't have a balloon saying "Russki Go Home" when riding your motorcycle through East Berlin ;))
Maybe someone will tell him that it’s called Mumbai.
I’m sure Kerry’s family was special but the ‘losing my passport’ comment caught my eye.
I was a military dependent in the 50’s. We had ONE passport, with a picture of the entire family on it. When we returned to the States from Morocco, my baby brother had been added to the family, born in Morocco in 1955. His picture was stapled to the one of the rest of us, on the same passport.
Also, as military dependents, we knew what expectations were for our behavior, and no one I know would have been so stupid to have attempted what Kerry claims he did - crossing from one Berlin to another. How did he get his bicycle over that barbed wire, I wonder?
Love to have someone find proof that his story, as are most of the stories told by Dems in the higher echelon of the party, is full of crap.
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