24 years ago today---maybe it seems like no big deal now, but back then? The earth moved.

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46. DFW

DFW

I do remember that day rather well - even as I was in 5th grade at the time - when the Berlin Wall, who had been a wall of "shame" in Most of Europe finally got teared down so to speak - not by war, or by politicians but by the people of East Germany who got tired of the old regime - and deiced to make it on their own....

Even though I was not there in Person, I saw most of it by the news - at that time of age, at least in Norway we had one Channel (NRK) and we have even evening news then, from real journalists- and at the time when the evening news was aired me and my brother was eating our supper - and soon going to bed - from the living room we kind of airdropped to the news - and was asked to come in - something that was not to often under the news - and was seeing it all on TV - the east germans who poured into West Berlin - and the border guards who was in a state of shock over what was happening.... Even as I was rather young then - I do understood that something specially was happening - something that have never happened before....

Of course - in the 20 or so years later I have read a lot, and also seen a few documentaries about that time in the world - and it is still interesting to se how Europe is still formed by what happened in 1989 - and that the end of the cold war - and the end of the Berlin wall is still entranced in most peoples mind.. I fear it will take a least a generation to make the berlin wall disappear in the heads of the grown ups - and they who was young when the cold war ended...

And it is also intesting to have seen the power of the people - it was in many ways not the leaders - the kings or queens - or politicians who made this change happened - but the will of the people against leader who they do not trusted anymore - and would get out of office... It happened in Eastern Germany - it can happened everywhere - and I think we as the human race, could learn something from this... Even the most autoritan and strong regimes - can, and will in time be turned over, if enough people got tired of their misgovernance... When the east germans got enough - they rather peacefully tried to solve it - but was given a cold shoulder by the government, who used riot police against them in the fall of 1989 - but people was not intimated by it - and continued to show the power of the people - and in the end it ended as it did - when people in Eastern Berlin was walking to the Wall - and over to the West - the border guard kind of in the dust just looking and wondering what was happening... The smart ones maybe understood that something was up before they was ordered to stand down.. Or in some cases they might as well have been sympathetic to the demonstrations and to the fact, that east germans wanted a change...

The world changed at that evening - the world was not the same the next day - or in the years following that time...

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