By: And I Saw Her Standing There — PapaScott

And I Saw Her Standing There — PapaScott — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 22:03:40 +0000

[...] we’re being nostalgic this month, with the fall of the Berlin Wall and all that, how about we go even further back, to November 1979. The Iran hostage crisis had just [...]

By: Anne Hodgson

Anne Hodgson — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:15:12 +0000

Hi Papa Scott, Nice to meet you this way! I’ll never forget the day the wall came down. I’d been living in Germany since 1981, and had spent 2 years in Berlin (1983-5) as a student, when you had the distinct impression that Germany, and Berlin in particular, was living in this separate place, sectioned off on account of its history, with subcultures that would not have flourished with the bright headlights of the international community trained on them. When the wall came down Germany truly became a part of the West. My German friends actually thought life in germany would uninteresting – the opposite of what you are saying – because all of the various “isms” that filled up daily life and kept their minds more occupied than their hands were disappearing. But having grown up in Cold War Washington, DC, just blocks from the Capitol, it was a momentous occasion for me. I couldn’t have been happier. And I’m still very glad to be here in Germany. Anne

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By: And I Saw Her Standing There — PapaScott

By: Anne Hodgson