The Fall of the Berlin Wall

Today marks the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. There are celebrations and such going on in Germany today, marking the occasion, not only of the coming down of the wall and the reunification of Berlin and then Germany, but the start of the fall of communism.

They say there are (or will be or have been)children where the wall was, holding speakers with recordings of the sound of people chipping at the wall, a sound that no one there will forget, but that the children did not hear; they are part of a generation that has only known a united Berlin and then a united Germany

I remember when the wall came down. I was in grade 10, and in history we were learning about World War 2 and the rise of the Berlin Wall. It was a strange thing, to be learning the beginning and watching the end of an era at the same time. It was a great time to be learning history.