Where were you when the Berlin Wall Fell?

[fNord]

I was in Florida on my way to Germany.

No Shit.

I was 12 and my Father had been assigned to Ramstine Air Base... and the fall of the Berlin Wall completely changed my life.

I was hours away (168 but who's counting...I was 12) from entering Germany, and then the wall fell!

I will never forget it.

[RFKHumphreyObama]

1. I was 8 years old and living in Southeast Asia

I don't really remember it but I do remember the reunification of Germany the following year and watching it on the evening news

Those were powerful, moving, emotional times

[proteus_lives]

2. I watched it on TV.

In grade school. It was fascinating to me.

[fNord]

3. I went just after.......

it was a weird time. some of the "Punk Revolutionaries" I met were Capitalists and very proud to be so.

I still have many pieces of the wall. They seem to mean alot more now than they did then...............

[proteus_lives]

4. Having a piece of the wall would be neat.

Treasure little things like that and pass them on. Your descendants will appreciate it.

One of my family's most prized possessions is a letter Abraham Lincoln wrote to my great-great-great grandfather.

[LostInAnomie]

5. I was 10...

... and pissed that they were taking away my TV time with a bunch of Germans beating up some concrete.

[MissHoneychurch]

6. I was in Leipzig (East Germany)

sleeping in my bed :)

I was 14. And then my life changed. A lot.

[fNord]

7. I can Imagine...

over night reality shifted from up and down to sideways

[MrScorpio]

8. Working at the Pentagon and realizing that I'd never be stationed in Berlin

So I went to Spangdahlem instead

[Patiod]

9. At work - told my boss, and she said "don't you have work to do?"

Seriously, I went into her office and said "they just announced that people can travel freely between East and West Berlin, so that means the Berlin Wall essentially just fell.

She wasn't big on current events that didn't impact our business.....

[DFW]

10. I was in Hamburg (West Germany)

Been there, posted about that (extry, extry, read all about it! LOL):

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x6959298

[Zavulon]

11. Laval, Quebec.

I didn't care a whit about it at the time, and my parents wouldn't watch anything else but the coverage. Drove me nuts.

Wish I had paid more attention back then.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

12. Teaching college

My department chairman was a German teacher, and his daughter was away attending another college. Apparently she was watching TV during the day and phoned him to say that the Berlin Wall was coming down.

I actually remember when it went up. One of my mother's cousins was stationed in Berlin as an army chaplain at the time, and he took home movies of the Russians reinforcing the barrier that they put up overnight in August 1961; he showed us the movies when he came to Minneapolis to visit.

[velvet]

13. Here in Oz

Looking after my dying mother, who passed away a month later. We watched on tv and were both so pleased she lived to see this happen.

[jmowreader]

14. IN Berlin

Trust me on one thing: photos and video can NEVER capture the essence of what it was like in Berlin that week.

[Odin2005]

15. I was an 3yo high-functiong autistic brat driving my parents nuts.

In Minnesota, nowhere near Berlin. :)