Posted on 11/09/2014 2:27:03 PM PST by Hojczyk
What great days those were.
One of my favorite movies of all time, about those days, Goodbye, Lenin!
How fortunate we were to have all at the same time..
Reagan
Thatcher
Pope Paul II
Helmut Kohl
Oops, Pope John Paul II.
http://cdn.ricochet.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/A-mediocre-speech2-928x640.jpg
In delivering his Berlin Wall address, President Reagan overruled the objections of the National Security Council and the State Department. Here, a couple of documents from the Reagan library. One, an NSC memorandum to Colin Powell, then Deputy National Security Advisor, calls the address a mediocre speech and a missed opportunity. The other shows the NSC edits. Note what the NSC deleted.
http://ricochet.com/archives/tear-down-this-wall-a-mediocre-speech-and-a-missed-opportunity/
Full article
“Two years later the Berlin Wall came down on November 9, 1989.”
The end of an era.
September 11th 2001 was the beginning of another era.
What an absolutely brilliant artistic expression.
I was in the Air National Guard at the time and a DSG (drill status guardsmen). In October of '89 we were called to our HQ at Ft Sam Houston to work an exercise (Gallant Eagle) and the scenario was the Berlin Wall had fell...and we were exercising the Soviet response. Being the weather guy...it was a challenge as we were forecasting for forces in Europe and Alaska...a big variety.
I remember thinking the whole time: What a stupid scenario....like the Berlin Wall is ever gonna fall.
Well...I'm sitting in my apartment at Texas A&M....on this day 25 years ago...and they break into a Night Court re-run to inform me that the Berlin Wall had fallen.
Twenty-five years ago today Liberals cried as they realized their dream of global workers’ paradise was not going to happen. Since then they have been doing their best to resurrect their dream.
The Wall was felled.
Mr. Gorbachev, Tear down this wall!
I was stationed in West Germany when the Wall fell.
BINGO!
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