Fifty years ago today -

David Hatunen wrote:
When I watched the TV and saw the people on the top of The Wall, knocking
off chunks, and people passing freely through it, I got tears in my eyes.
My teenage daughters couldn't understand why.

I was 15 years old in November 1989. I was glued to the TV news every
night wondering if this was the night that the wall would come down. I
got tears in my own eyes when it finally did.

--
K.

Lang may your lum reek.

Ah yes we don't read the papers, thank you.

"Tom P" a écrit dans le message de groupe de discussion :
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-14514916

Pfff
"David Hatunen" a écrit dans le message de groupe de discussion :
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On Sun, 14 Aug 2011 01:41:22 +0000, Erilar wrote:

Tom P wrote:
On 08/13/2011 06:02 PM, David Hatunen wrote:
On Sat, 13 Aug 2011 14:58:38 +0200, Tom P wrote:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-14514916

I was in the US Army when the wall started going up. Although I was
only an illustrator at the Fort Knox US Army Armor School Field
Printing Plant, we were still placed on alert.


Wow, that is a long time ago. I was there when the wall re-opened, IIRC
shortly before Christmas 1989.

Trying to remember coverage, I just realized that was at a time when I
had no TVat all!

When I watched the TV and saw the people on the top of The Wall, knocking
off chunks, and people passing freely through it, I got tears in my eyes.
My teenage daughters couldn't understand why.

--
Dave Hatunen: Free Baja Arizona

hohoho horne trying hard for martin...

"David Horne, _the_ chancellor (*)" a écrit dans le message de groupe de
discussion : ...

Markku Grönroos wrote:

14.8.2011 20:26, David Hatunen kirjoitti:

When I watched the TV and saw the people on the top of The Wall,
knocking
off chunks, and people passing freely through it, I got tears in my
eyes.
My teenage daughters couldn't understand why.

I was in East Germany in late summer 1989. When I had left Leipzig, only
a couple of weeks later anti government (anti communist) demonstrations
gathered hundreds of thousands of people each. When plugs start
sparking, things may start evolving at revolutionary speed.

When will they come for the hebe faggots?

--
(*) of the royal duchy of city south and deansgate
www.davidhorne.net (email address on website)
"[Do you think the world learned anything from the first
world war?] No. They never learn." -Harry Patch (1898-2009)

On Sun, 14 Aug 2011 00:01:30 +0200, Tom P wrote in post :
:

Wow, that is a long time ago. I was there when the wall re-opened, IIRC
shortly before Christmas 1989.

I was there a bit before and shortly afterwards, apart from thinking "about
bloody time" my main thoughts were, "that's the end of the unique
atmosphere in West Berlin". Two years later, when I left, everyone was
still trying to party, but the spark had gone.

Still, I have my bit of the wall from behind the Reichstag, bloody hard to
hammer out it was.

--
Tim C.
The man who treats a homonym as a synonym has a pun in 'im.

"Tim C." wrote:
On Sun, 14 Aug 2011 00:01:30 +0200, Tom P wrote in post :
:

Wow, that is a long time ago. I was there when the wall re-opened, IIRC
shortly before Christmas 1989.

I was there a bit before and shortly afterwards, apart from thinking "about
bloody time" my main thoughts were, "that's the end of the unique
atmosphere in West Berlin". Two years later, when I left, everyone was
still trying to party, but the spark had gone.

Still, I have my bit of the wall from behind the Reichstag, bloody hard to
hammer out it was.

Mine was given me by a friend who had a couple bigger chunks, on a trip
there in 1990.

--
Erilar, biblioholic medievalist with iPad

On 8/16/2011 12:18 PM, Erilar wrote:
"Tim wrote:
On Sun, 14 Aug 2011 00:01:30 +0200, Tom P wrote in post :
:

Wow, that is a long time ago. I was there when the wall re-opened, IIRC
shortly before Christmas 1989.

I was there a bit before and shortly afterwards, apart from thinking "about
bloody time" my main thoughts were, "that's the end of the unique
atmosphere in West Berlin". Two years later, when I left, everyone was
still trying to party, but the spark had gone.

Still, I have my bit of the wall from behind the Reichstag, bloody hard to
hammer out it was.

Mine was given me by a friend who had a couple bigger chunks, on a trip
there in 1990.

A lot of people, including me, prize brightly colored small pieces of
the Wall that friends brought back.

--


James Silverton, Potomac

I'm *not*

Mine was given me by a friend who had a couple bigger chunks, on a trip
there in 1990.

A lot of people, including me, prize brightly colored small pieces of
the Wall that friends brought back.

I got mine in 1968, when I owned the US Army trains that ran between Frankfurt
and Berlin.

Along with a picture of myself at Checkpoint Charlie, these mementos became much
more significant after the wall came down.

-- Larry