I remember mentioning earlier this year that there are few events I remember in stunning detail. Tiananmen Square, the Challenger Disaster and 9\/11 are up high in that list.<\/p>\n
The fall of the Berlin Wall stands equally high.<\/p>\n
I remember sitting up late one night with my mother watching people standing atop the Berlin Wall, striking it with sledgehammers and fists and everything they had at their disposal, tearing down a fading remnant of the Cold War.<\/p>\n
We are about to hit the 20th Anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. I find it strange to think that there are adults now who grew up with the wall a memory<\/em> rather than a real thing<\/em>. I find it equally fantastic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I remember mentioning earlier this year that there are few events I remember in stunning detail. Tiananmen Square, the Challenger…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[161],"class_list":["post-1304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aside","tag-berlin-wall"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t