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I remember the day. I was in high school. They had a student in my school from West Germany get on the PA system and make some statement commemorating the day.
I was pen pals with a girl from West Berlin in High School and when the wall came down she sent me about a 5 pound chunk of the wall, it sits in my living room still on the nick-nack shelf.
I remember watching live the fall of the wall in 1989, just like I watched Al-Sadat arriving in Israel in 1977 following the Camp David Accords. Live on TV, with a strange feeling of witnessing historical events even if I was too young to realize how important it was at the time. Surprisingly my first real personal experience of the Berlin wall fall was when I saw Trabants on highways, full speed ahead …Trabant : http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/17/world/europe/17trabant.html
And the hum-drum life of the only person convicted of it: Lieutenant William Calley, A retired Jeweler.
May 17 2012 Donna Summer passed away
Is that really historical? I tend to think not. She did have some pretty good songs though.
