The wall came down this day in 1989

[Lady Freedom]

The Berlin Wall came down November 9th. 1989. Do you remember where you were when you got the news?

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

1. I was only 9 years old ...

and I actually remember watching it :) My mom made me watch it . Little did I know that 11 years later I would actually travel to Germany and visit where the "Berliner Maurer" stood.

[datasuspect]

2. if you look closely

you can see ronald reagan on the brandenburg gate.

he's wearing a red cape and tuxedo tshirt.

[bertha katzenengel]

3. Shortly before the anniversary of this wall's destruction, the U.S. gives

the green light to the construction of another. x(

I don't remember exactly where, and I was really effed up then, so at the time I was only vaguely aware of the significance. I was 26 years old.

[johnnie]

4. Sheeezzz

I don't remember where I was before I clicked on this thread let alone when the wall came down.

Sadly, no.. I don't remember.

[QMPMom]

5. I was home taking care of my 2 babies and cleaning the house

because my ILs were coming for a visit. See, my DH was born and raised in Germany by very German parents. They all immigrated to N. America. DH picked up the ILs at the bus station after he got off work (we lived in a remote area) and brought them to our house. Neither DH nor the ILs knew about the fall of the Wall. I took all of them into the living room and told them what had happened. All three of them refused to believe me. They sat there all evening watching CNN and still refused to believe it. It wasn't until the next morning when they called relatives in Germany that they believed that it was really true.

[Anarcho-Socialist]

6. I was seven years old

...and watching the BBC Nine O'Clock News, and was taken by the images of happiness and people hugging each other.

[Reverend_Smitty]

7. I was in Kindergarten at the time...

So I don't remember exactly what I was doing that day, but it is my earliest political memory and all I can remember about it was all the adults were talking about this wall, so it must have been a big deal

[MorningGlow]

8. I sure do

I was in grad school in Boston. Couldn't believe it when I heard and rushed home to the TV. The images were stunning, incredible, because I had grown up with a divided Germany, the "threat" of communism, the cold war, and, worst of all, the paralyzing fear that at any moment the US and USSR could nuke each other into oblivion. (For you young 'uns, that meant lying awake at night, certain the sirens were going to go off...hearing about Soviet defectors...having a "plan" on where to meet if something "happened"...imaginging a mushroom cloud on the horizon every time tensions escalated...suffering nightmares after watching The Day After...)

So yeah, I was all teary watching the moment we thought would never come. Kind of like this week, actually... :)