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  • The Wall Comes Down

    So, where were you the night wall came down?

    I remember sitting in my living room in government quarters at FT Lee Virginia. I was drinking a beer and reading a book. I put down the book and kept drinking the beer. I was transfixed by CNN. I think I stayed up to about 0300.

    I rushed home from work each day to put on the TV and see what the latest news was fopr about 2 weeks after that.
    “Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.”
    Mark Twain

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    I was in Iserlohn, West Germany.

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    • #3
      I had left the army that year. Spend about 17 yrs in Germany and they wait until I leave to pull it down.:)

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        BBC NEWS | Europe | In pictures: Berlin Wall anniversary

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          i was only 4 years old and don't remember it, but according to my parents when everybody was running aroud shouting "The wall is gone, the wall is gone!" my reaction was: "it wasn't me!!"

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          • #6
            Originally posted by Tarek Morgen View Post
            i was only 4 years old and don't remember it, but according to my parents when everybody was running aroud shouting "The wall is gone, the wall is gone!" my reaction was: "it wasn't me!!"
            Very Good.

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            • #7
              Originally posted by dave lukins View Post
              I had left the army that year. Spend about 17 yrs in Germany and they wait until I leave to pull it down.:)
              I can just see it now: Gorbachev sitting in the Kremlin gets the word - 'Lukins has finally left the Army'. "Thank Lenin for that" says Gorby, "thought the mad bastard would NEVER leave. OK boys, its safe to let the wall down now".
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              • #8
                I was on active duty as an instructor pilot. I remember having several powerful thoughts... "I never thought I'd see it in my lifetime; a miracle" and "We apparently have no enemy now - we have won the cold war. What will become of our armed forces, and how will this shape policy?"

                Finally, I thought "The reunification of Germany will be a task of herculean proportions" and I honestly thought it would be a social and economic disaster. The Germans proved that notion wrong.

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