Fall of the Berlin Wall...

Blackend · Post by **Blackend** » 09 Nov 2005 01:42

Well, today is the 16th anniversary since the Berlin Wall fell.

I remember I'd just got home from kidnergarten (I also got my dog that same day, which is mainly why I remember it) and my mom and pop were watching it and made me and my brother sit an watch it.

A landmark in the strive for peace. Divided nations suck.

Jeremy · Post by **Jeremy** » 09 Nov 2005 03:43

Yeah totally. I would have been five so I don't remember it at all but certainly a hugely significant part of modern history and something that can been seen as very inspirational - that such fundamentally divided states can strive for and succeed in peace.

brian relly · Post by **brian relly** » 09 Nov 2005 04:34

I was born almost eight months later.

mohkale · Post by **mohkale** » 09 Nov 2005 04:39

I was 9 back then. If I remember correctly, that was the first time I ever realized what the Wall really was. I used to think it as an "ordinary wall", not a dividing wall. Well now that I think of it, I guess the purpose of all the walls is to divide.

It's hard to realize it was only 16 years ago there were 2 Germanies. Two years ago a friend of mine from the former East Germany told me that though the Wall is gone, the impact of it is still there. I'm not really all that familiar with the situation now, so I'd really appreciate an opinion of a German member of the community.

MAtti

SandWraith · Post by **SandWraith** » 09 Nov 2005 09:26

Of equal or greater significance, November 9th was also the day of Kristallnacht, which occurred in 1938, and was one of the defining moments in the escalation of antisematic feelings in Nazi Germany.

HighDemonslayer · Post by **HighDemonslayer** » 11 Nov 2005 10:36

I was 14 or so when that happened. It seemed like a big deal.

We had a few blissful years of not worrying about M.A.D.

-n