And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Monday, February 5, 2018
Today February 5, 2018, the Berlin Wall is down exactly as long as it was up - 10316 days.
I never thought I'd see it .down without a catastrophic war.
I am a former cold warrior. Served three years in West Germany during the mid-70's. I got to know a German family well enough to be invited to their home on weekends. So yeah, I got a bit emotional watching the wall come down on TV years later. It always reminds me of this---
Thanks for your significant memorial.
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I am a former cold warrior. Served three years in West Germany during the mid-70's. I got to know a German family well enough to be invited to their home on weekends. So yeah, I got a bit emotional watching the wall come down on TV years later. It always reminds me of this---
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Saw a slab of this vile monstrosity in Microsoft's art collection. Kind of like seeing your enemy's head on a pike inside the castle.
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