Elizabeth Barrette (ysabetwordsmith) wrote,
Elizabeth Barrette
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The Berlin Wall: 20 Years Later

Today marks the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall. I remember being in high school and watching the newscasts of people attacking the wall with crowbars and hacking off chunks of it. Now very little is left and the remnants have become a historical curiosity.

Last November, I wrote "Bringing Down the Berlin Wall" during a Poetry Fishbowl; it was sponsored and posted online.
Tags: civic poetry, history, news, poetry, politics
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kestrels_nest

kestrels_nest

November 10 2009, 02:08:05 UTC 11 years ago

I remember when the Wall went up, as well as when it came down. I was pretty young, but the image of President Kennedy announcing the Berlin Airlift, broadcast on TV, has stayed with me.

I was 30, almost 31 when the Wall came down. My husband and I were having dinner with friends a generation older, and talking about the fact that an entire generation had grown up with the Wall as a fact of life, and that its destruction was much more striking for those to whom it had "always" been there.

Now, to my own son, it's ancient history, as incomprehensible as the Roman Conquests.

ysabetwordsmith

Wow!

ysabetwordsmith

November 10 2009, 02:31:53 UTC 11 years ago

Thank you so much for sharing this! I love watching how history unfolds as a different experience for people of different ages. When we gather together, our collective experience is deepened by sharing each other's views.