Thoughts on the "Berlin Wall'
I was ten years old when the Wall was built and it came to represent the evil of communism and the Soviet Empire to my young impressionable mind. I remember the "Cuban Missile Crisis" of that same time period and how President Kennedy stared the evil in the eye and never blinked and the evil retreated from the nearness of our shores but the "Berlin Wall" still stood. My Mom and Step-Dad got married in 1964 and we moved to Long Beach, Ca (he was serving in the US Navy) where my brother and I were enrolled in school. I can remember having drills at school about what to do during a nuclear attack. The "Cold War" was very real for my generation and the "Berlin Wall" was a symbol of that time period. I can remember reading about the many Germans who tried to escape East Germany and how they were shot down trying to get over the Wall.
Today we mark the 20th Anniversary of the fall of the "Berlin Wall". I believe it was Monday. I had just started calling bingo for the Mtn Grove VFW and we came home from bingo on that night and turned on the television to catch a little news and unwind before bedtime but the story that was playing out live was mesmeriseing. We sat staring and watching the citizens climbing the evil wall and tearing it apart piece by piece. Tears welled up in my eyes as I thought about what that meant and those that had perished in their attempts to scale that wall and how it meant that the end was coming for the great evil of the Soviet Empire.
Take a few seconds in silent genuflection on this day and think about those who were so desperate for freedom that they would rather die than live under communism and thank the millions of American servicemen and women that stood as a human wall during the "Cold War" and kept the evil of the Soviet Union from enslaving more of the world. The War in Vietnam was just a prolonged battle of the "Cold War" and although the media tells us we lost the Vietnam War, in reality we did not, for it bankrupted the Soviet Union and led to their defeat in the "Cold War". The spread of communism was halted without another nation succumbing to it.
IJK
Today we mark the 20th Anniversary of the fall of the "Berlin Wall". I believe it was Monday. I had just started calling bingo for the Mtn Grove VFW and we came home from bingo on that night and turned on the television to catch a little news and unwind before bedtime but the story that was playing out live was mesmeriseing. We sat staring and watching the citizens climbing the evil wall and tearing it apart piece by piece. Tears welled up in my eyes as I thought about what that meant and those that had perished in their attempts to scale that wall and how it meant that the end was coming for the great evil of the Soviet Empire.
Take a few seconds in silent genuflection on this day and think about those who were so desperate for freedom that they would rather die than live under communism and thank the millions of American servicemen and women that stood as a human wall during the "Cold War" and kept the evil of the Soviet Union from enslaving more of the world. The War in Vietnam was just a prolonged battle of the "Cold War" and although the media tells us we lost the Vietnam War, in reality we did not, for it bankrupted the Soviet Union and led to their defeat in the "Cold War". The spread of communism was halted without another nation succumbing to it.
IJK
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