Later I wrote<\/a> about the fall of the wall, and this dramatic change from the Cold War I had grown up with as the basic organizing principle of geopolitics, in the context of Obama\u2019s verbal tic about History as a force. \u00a0I have half a mind to ask my husband to write a \u201cguest blogger\u201d post tomorrow on his experiences at the time.<\/p>\nBut in the meantime \u2014 what do you remember?\u00a0 <\/p>\n
UPDATE:\u00a0 I talked to my husband.\u00a0 I had known that he was doing his military service at the time, in Mittenwald in the Alps, so nowhere near the border with the East, but I had still thought there would have been some reaction, some celebration in the barracks.\u00a0 But he doesn\u2019t really remember anything.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Or the day after, depending. \u00a0I wrote before that my memory is of following the news reports, as East Germans left via Hungary and protested within their own country, and especially the morning news, the next day, reporting on the momentous changes. \u00a0Later I wrote about the fall of the wall, and this dramatic change […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2209,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[154],"class_list":["post-204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-berlin-wall"],"yoast_head":"\n
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