Fun fact, today marks the 10,316th day since the wall fell. The wall stood for the same number of days
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Very interesting, didn't know that
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I saw it before it fell, in the '70s, and then again 2 or 3 years ago. What a change. When it was up, looking over it was like looking into a black and white photo--yet on the west side of the wall, all the buildings/apartments had flowers on their balconies, etc. The east side was a minefield, with anti-auto/truck obstacles, patrolled by attack dogs, covered by remote-controlled machine guns, etc. If the socialist "paradise" was such a wonderful paradise, why were so many folks trying to escape to the west?Comment
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Yep, same here... My main principle product line is made in Germany. I go there quite often... Back in the 70's the owners of the company were in the town of Zorge. The wall went right through town... I went right up to the triple fence and took pics... could see a watch tower on top of a hill in the distance... Looking through my camera lens (600mm), I could see a guy looking back at my buddies and me in binoculars... gave me the heebie-geepies... Three fences... Those inward aiming 9mm machine guns were very intimidating to look at...Originally posted by dustoffer View Post
When the wall came down, one of my German friends sent me a bunch of pieces of the wire (actually expanded metal) from the wall that I have to this day...Comment
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That's a cool piece to have.Comment
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Got to met Gorbi too in Moscow before the wall came down... have a piece of the scrap metal from the SS-60 Russian missles they destroyed as part of the first phase of the SALT that Reagan negotiated... Some of my most cherished mementos from my past...Comment
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Yeah that's some very cool stuff to pass downComment
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I was a border guard in the 2nd Armoured Calvary in the early 80's,along the Czech border,it was an interesting job watching the Russians and them watching us.Comment
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Back in the dayAttached FilesComment
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My father was on the East German side when the wall was built over night. After three days of negotiations we got him back. It was a tense time for our family. He was in MI so I don't really know what he was doing over there.
Years later, while stationed in Germany, my night school collage professor told us the story of when he and his fellow border patrol MP spent all night running back and forth across the plowed ground, backwards and forwards, that at that time represented the border, making it look as though hundreds of thousands of easterners had crossed over to the west during the night.
When the commies saw what looked like half of Eastern Europe had fled in the night the wall was built.
I't was amazing how his actions, innocent fun at the time, affected so many people in the future including my own.
Ya never know.Comment
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I need to dig out my old pics...
When I was in Moscow, we were invited to the Kremlin... my partner and I were walking across a little bridge that dumped us into the edge of Red Square and the big sidewalk that went straight in front of Lenin's tomb they used to guard sort of like we do our Tomb of the unknowns... I told him, "Man, this is a loooong way from Lufkin, Texas!" Was a pretty weird and uneasy feeling...Comment
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I was in Amberg we maned two border camp Camp Reed and Camp MayComment
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I never saw it, but I do have a piece of it.
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