The Brandenburg Gate from the East side, right after the border was
closed, before the Wall was built. Army trucks blocked the portals of
the Brandenburg Gate and everyone, East Army and civilians East and
West wandered aimlessly in disbelief.
Even the weather mourned.
This sad day is now long forgotten, except, I am sure, by those
trapped over there and those who so bravely fought to try to get them
out. And those like me, who had access to both East and West, and
brought those we knew as many of the things unavailable there as we
could safely bring.....until it all become too depressing and most of
those over there became resigned to their fate.
Until this momentous day, there was always a place on Earth where East
and West, communist and Free World mingled relatively freely. After
this border closing that all shriveled and, for the most part, died.
The opening due to Reagon was by far his greatest work, though even that is now overshadowed and nearly forgotten.
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