Posted on 11/09/2014 2:27:03 PM PST by Hojczyk
“Mr. Gorbachev, Tear down this wall!” It was the challenge delivered by United States President Ronald Reagan to Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to destroy the Berlin Wall, in a speech at the Brandenburg Gate near the Berlin Wall.
Contributor Andrea Ryan added: A special credit should be given to Peter Robinson, President Reagan’s speechwriter who wrote this speech. He is currently Editor-In-Chief for Ricochet. You can read his three short posts here describing the courage and conviction Reagan had to keep these words under strong objection by the National Security Council and the State Department…wanting those words removed.
Two years later the Berlin Wall came down – on November 9, 1989.
Today German Chancellor Angela Merkel hailed the fall as “a dream come true.” The BBC reported:
The fall of the Berlin Wall has shown the world that dreams can come true and “nothing has to stay as it is”, German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said.
Speaking 25 years after the event, Mrs Merkel said the message for those in countries where rights were threatened was that things could get better.
Earlier she attended a service for the former East German regime’s victims.
The Berlin Wall was built in 1961 to stop people fleeing from communist East Germany to the West.
Its fall in 1989 became a powerful symbol of the end of the Cold War.
Later in the day, some 7,000 white balloons – perched on 3.6-metre poles to match the height of the wall and stretching for 15km (nine miles) – will be released to symbolise its disappearance.
(Excerpt) Read more at thegatewaypundit.com ...
SO AMAZING!
Without Walesa and Solidarnosc, the Wall is still there.
At a Kiwanis convention in Nashville several years ago, I met an officer stationed in Berlin when the wall came down. His dad was an officer stationed there when it was built.
http://www.inthefaceofevil.com
Great movie about Reagan’s battle to end the greatest evil of the 20th Century.
Medics?
Thanks, this makes it so real. Tear down this wall!
...and the socialists at the State Dept believed the “tear down this wall” was too confrontational.
But Reagan knew exactly what needed to be said. He was extraordinary.
The morning headline on my wedding day. Hard to forget that one.
Wind of Change
A dark moment for Democrats and other Leftists everywhere.
The day's events began with a brass band playing, evoking the trumpets which brought down the walls of the biblical city of Jericho.
Chancellor Merkel, who grew up in East Germany, and other officials laid roses in one of the remaining sections of the wall. --linky
Of course, they all say it was Gorby, and not Reagan who was responsible for the Wall coming down.
There was another event, that rarely gets mentioned as a catalyst, the Tiananmen Square protests which had taken place a few months before, this certainly provided inspiration to those behind the Iron Curtain.
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