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Berlin Wall Will Have Been Down for as Long as It Was Up

posted by janrinok on Monday February 05 2018, @10:32PM   
from the how-many-of-us-remember-it-now? dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

The Berlin wall was erected on 13 August 1961. It was breached on 9 November 1989, after 28 years, 2 months and 27 days (10315 days, to be exact). Counting forward another 28 years, 2 months and 27 days (or just 10315 days, you get the same answer) takes us to tomorrow, 5 February 2018.

Below is the blog entry I posted on the twentieth anniversary of the Fall of the Wall, in 2009. Since then, I have continued to enjoy visiting Berlin; and I always pay my respects to the Wall and its memories, for me and for many others.

https://nwhyte.livejournal.com/2959427.html

[Editor's Comment: I too had the pleasure of serving in Berlin on 2 separate tours of duty, alongside US and French colleagues. The city was vibrant and full of places to see and things to do. However, I never lost the feeling that we lived in a very restricted environment. I was one of the fortunate ones in that my military duties meant I also had the opportunity to work in what was then East Germany. I'm glad that those days are long gone.]

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• Not all coming down Not all coming down (Score: 3, Interesting) by frojack on Monday February 05 2018, @11:31PM (1 child)

  by frojack (1554) on Monday February 05 2018, @11:31PM (#633534) Journal

  http://www.foxnews.com/world/2018/02/05/newly-discovered-berlin-wall-segment-to-get-protected-status.html [foxnews.com]

  BERLIN – A recently discovered remnant of the Berlin Wall from the heavily fortified border's early days is being given protected status.

  Monday's announcement by the city government's culture ministry comes on the day when the wall has been open for as long as it divided Berlin: 28 years, two months and 26 days.

  An amateur historian said last month that he had found the 80-meter (260-foot) stretch of wall and reported it to authorities because of concerns about its condition.

  The brick wall was used as part of communist East Germany's original fortifications when the border with West Berlin was sealed in 1961. The border fortifications were expanded over the years, and the barrier was far more sophisticated by the time it was opened in 1989.

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• Re:Not all coming down (Score: 2) by TheRaven on Tuesday February 06 2018, @11:42AM

  by TheRaven (270) on Tuesday February 06 2018, @11:42AM (#633749) Journal

  It's Fox News, so I didn't expect much detail, but how do you find 80 metres of wall in the middle of a city that no one has noticed for almost 30 years? Is this the setup for a Monty Python sketch?

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