re: #127 wrenchwench

The only person I know who was not happy about the Berlin Wall coming down was my brother. And his only problem with it was the timing. He had been there visiting, and had left the day before. He almost cried as he watched it on TV, because he shoulda been there.

Same thing happened to me. I had lived in Germany for a decade, and crossed any number of times via Checkpoint Charlie to visit friends in the East and smuggle in books and chocolate. Then I moved back Stateside in May of 1989. By the time I realized what was happening, you couldn’t book a flight to Germany for love or money - and I offered both! ;^) So disappointed. Pickaxes were going for five hundred dollars, but I would have used Andy Dufresne’s rock hammer or a nail file to get my own little self-demolished piece of the Mauer!