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-Short Attention Span Theater-
Today in History: a wall falls.
2009-11-09
Charles G. Hill, dustbury.com

In November 1989, I was running a FidoNet echo and reading a lot of others. And a chap named Wolfram Sperber dropped into INTERUSER, and we dropped everything, because he was there, man. I saved his story, and it's followed me through half a dozen computers since then, which is a neat trick considering I was running a Commodore 128 at the time.

Sperber's story follows...

After all these tremendous news from here and Germany at all, I feel the need to send a report to you all from Schoeneberg in West-Berlin about the "first night" from Nov. 9th to 10th.

At noon time on Sunday I'm sitting at my keyboard, listening to TV-Transmission of Beethoven's 7th sinfony from the Berlin philharmonics: a special free concert to our guests from the GDR... (Yesterday more than half a million has been in this part of the City where some 2 million people are living. It was reported that more than 4.3 millions of visa were given until now, i.e. for more than one fourth of the population of a state).-

You all get informed very quickly by your own mass media, and I don't want to duplicate lots of news...

What I want to describe, are my own adventures in that first night....

Go read the rest of it.
Posted by:Mike

#8  Brainwashing 2.0
Posted by: European Conservative   2009-11-09 19:19  

#7  It reminded many of us of the same place / ideology, EC.
Posted by: lotp   2009-11-09 19:16  

#6  President Bush Sr was there.
Nobody is missing Obama.

I remember when he was in Berlin the last time, using Germans as a backdrop for his hopeanchange campaign.

I watched it from a distance. Most Germans were drinking beer and eating sausages. The "inner circle" were only American supporters shipped in for the event to applaud and cheer him, with CNN happily filming away.

Well, that DID remind me of East Germany
Posted by: European Conservative   2009-11-09 19:10  

#5  Happy Anniversary, Mr. & Mrs. EC!
Posted by: Mike   2009-11-09 17:53  

#4  Yeah, great story, EC. It is both sad and shameful that the President of the United States is not there commemorating one of the defining events of the 20th century. But then again, it is not about Him, is it? Ich bin ein jelly donut.
Posted by: SteveS   2009-11-09 17:50  

#3  Well we have a living souvenir of that day... She's 19 years and 3 months old...
Posted by: European Conservative   2009-11-09 17:41  

#2  EC -- That's a great story! I guess you two have your own anniversary to celebrate tonight as well.

Now THAT's the kind of souvenir I would like--much better than a lousy T-shirt...
Posted by: Dar   2009-11-09 17:17  

#1  I was in Berlin on this day to visit friends. When we watched the famous press conference we knew this was huge. We all went to Bernauer Strasse which was close by. And suddenly GDR citizens were crossing the border. The first slowly, incredulous that they had made it, but followed by a crowd of jubilating people shouting "Wahnsinn!" Bottles of Sekt appeared out of nowhere and everyone was celebrating.

Then a beautiful East German girl walked up to me, hugged me and kissed me, just like that.

We celebrated all night.

A few months later she became my wife and we have four children now.

One day in history.

Posted by: European Conservative   2009-11-09 15:26  

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