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

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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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 06 2018, @06:48AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 06 2018, @06:48AM (#633669)

    Now, this is something to work for. I doubt though that it will be as easy as German reunification had been.

  • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Tuesday February 06 2018, @09:50AM

    by FatPhil (863) <{pc-soylent} {at} {asdf.fi}> on Tuesday February 06 2018, @09:50AM (#633715) Homepage
    But we have so many decades more experience of international relations fuckups to repea^H^H^H^H^Hlearn from.
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