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The Iron Curtain began to crumble...
I can't really write about the Berlin Wall coming down, I was 8-and-a-half and I was still so much in shock after the Loma Prieta earthquake that I felt the bed shake every night as I fell asleep, but I remember my mother crying because her father hadn't lived to see it. I feel so sorry for the kids younger than us who didn't get to grow up with successful peaceful revolution.
The NYtimes.com has a gallery of reader-submitted photos- and I love this one. Those poor East German child-guards (Sting apparently said they were like "virgins with guns") have realized that they don't have enough bullets to stop the crowd- and they don't want to shot anyone anyway.
I can't really write about the Berlin Wall coming down, I was 8-and-a-half and I was still so much in shock after the Loma Prieta earthquake that I felt the bed shake every night as I fell asleep, but I remember my mother crying because her father hadn't lived to see it. I feel so sorry for the kids younger than us who didn't get to grow up with successful peaceful revolution.
The NYtimes.com has a gallery of reader-submitted photos- and I love this one. Those poor East German child-guards (Sting apparently said they were like "virgins with guns") have realized that they don't have enough bullets to stop the crowd- and they don't want to shot anyone anyway.