Posted on Mar 28, 2014
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It's been 25 years since the Berlin wall fell. Time sure flies! I will never forget where I was on the evening of November 9, 1989. I was a&nbsp; young PFC stationed at FT. Drum and getting ready for the long four day weekend. I stopped in at my friend's room in the barracks when he had CNN on. I just couldn't believe what I was seeing on TV. People from both sides- East and West, Communists and Capitalists- all together as one partying it up on the Wall, where months earlier, a man was killed trying to escape from East Berlin.<br><.br>Where were you when the Berlin Wall fell? Are there any RP members who were stationed in West Berlin at the time? I'd like to hear all of your stories.<br>
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I was actually there in 1989 when the wall came down. I was 7 years old And my father was stationed in Frankfurt and took us to the site. We got to chisel pieces of the rock from the wall. I still have them even though they are mostly crumbled. We PCSd to VA a year later and my third grade teacher was talking about the wall one day, I raised my hand to tell her I was there when it came down and she of course didn't believe me. I came back the next day with the pieces of rock and a plethora of pics to her shocking disbelief, but she apologised to me infront of the class. I will never forget that experience.
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SSG C.,

That must've been awesome to witness history in the making at a very young age.
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Of course I didn't realize it then but looking back I can say I will never forget that experience.
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MSG Curtis Lange
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That is the life of a Military Brat...teachers never believe that kids have been to those places due to their own lack of travel or ignorance.

 

I was in Germany from 83 to 86 before the wall was torn down...it did not "fall" down. I was back in the Mannheim/Heidelberg area from 96 to 2002. The country had changed alot during that time.

 

We have a piece of the wall here at Fort Leavenworth in a memorial.

 

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SGT Craig Northacker
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I was on the other end-I was 7 when it went up and my father sent me back to the States.  I was in 3rd grade, and my teacher made a comment about the Wall in Berlin, and I asked her what she was talking about.  She showed me a Time Magazine cover, and I confirmed where I was when we walked through Brandenburg Gate, where the Russian Memorial was and so on.  In 1961 that blew her mind!  lol
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I was in Friedberg Germany. Got to watch it fall.
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I was a Fister for HHB 2/82 FA from 87-90
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SFC Micheal Gibbens
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We were in the gap on maneuvers which got cut short. I was assign to the 23rd Engineers in Hanau at the time
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SGT Terri Janko
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We were in east berlin 3 days before the wall came down to go shopping - it was very intense traveling to and from - then the party began after that - HEY GUYS A 2/82 FA here Friedberg Ray Barracks - husband is SGT Scott Janko - join us at https://www.facebook.com/groups/Spearhead2.82FA/ - we are trying to connect with as many as we can.
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MSG Michael Jackson
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I was there before the fall of the wall in good old 3/6 Inf. Nothing can beat Berlin
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Pretty sure I was in the 4th grade!! Bet ya'll feel old now! LOL
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SFC William Swartz Jr
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SFC G.,

 

"Get off my lawn ya undisciplined kid!!" LOL!

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SGT Thomas Lucken
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I was a young 26 yr old SGT in Korea at the time starting my 3rd year of  a 2nd tour. 

Last time in Germany was Reforger 86, Certain Sentinel and it was West Germany then!!!!!  :-)
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I was not born yet...
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Yeah yall can bite me.LOL I get used to those comments. I especially like them when under soldiers fall out of runs, I went through Air Assault School at 42yrs old.
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