Note: The following text is a quote: http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/presidential-proclamation-world-freedom-day Home • Briefing Room • Presidential Actions • Proclamations THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary __________________________________________________________________________ For Immediate Release November 9, 2009 WORLD FREEDOM DAY, 2009 ------------ BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION Twenty years ago today, the Wall came down in Berlin and both a country and a continent came together. After thousands of East Berliners flooded through checkpoints into West Berlin, border restrictions dissolved across Eastern Bloc countries. The Iron Curtain that divided Europe for decades finally fell, ushering in a new era...