Take Down That Wall and they did....

August 12th 1961 Waltr Ulbricht leader of the East German Communist Party ordered a barricade to be built that would stand between the east and west Germany. The wall separated friends, family, work and homes. The wall would be built of concrete and barbed wire The wall was also carefully guarded. .

The great Berlin was had been constructed overnight and separated the east from the west. This all ended on November 9 1989 when the wall fell.  I can recall staring and shouting at the T.V. as history was about to happen. The Berlin Wall was about to come down. It would be the fall of the great wall. The Cold War was starting to thaw across Eastern Europe and East Berlin and West Berlin would be changed forever. Residents of Berlin would be reunited allowing families to see each other, friends and others to join together What a wonderful day.

While I had never been to Germany I do not believe that anyone in the room watching this play out on t.v. had a dry eye. We all felt the excitement. History was being re-wrote and the wall in the future would be no more .

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