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Post by Village Idiot on Nov 10, 2014 22:34:41 GMT -5
My sister was a student in Hamburg then. Cell phones didn't exist, and email wasn't a thing in my world. But she related later how they heard about the wall coming down and a bunch of students hopped into a car and drove to Berlin, how the roads were snagged with traffic, but they eventually made it.
This thread started with the lack of coverage of the anniversary. Today it's all I've been hearing on the radio. I guess on this side of the pond, they were saving it all up for the exact date.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 11, 2014 0:31:38 GMT -5
Over here the coverage was largely eclipsed by remembrance Sunday. I rewatched "The Lives of Others" recently. That's a great film about some East Germans in the time before their release. Was that the deal with poppies on the EPL unis and moments of silence before kickoff? Armistice weekend and centenary of beginning of WWI combined.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 11, 2014 0:37:54 GMT -5
There was a 2 minute national silence on Sunday and today there will be another. A minute I think?* The poppies are worn by a lot of people and proceeds from their sale go to the Royal British Legion for dispersal to veterans' charities.
Edit - I was having a lie-in at eleven o'clock on Sunday, listening to the radio. There was two minutes radio silence too. I was caught unawares and was moved.
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Post by fauxmaha on Nov 11, 2014 9:22:04 GMT -5
"Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!"
Someone posted that clip on my FB feed yesterday. I remember that moment well.
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Post by j on Nov 11, 2014 16:25:32 GMT -5
Incidentally, the poppies sold by the pretty nurse in "Penny Lane" are a reference to Remembrance Day, and one of the covert psychedelic elements in the song—is it November, or is it "summer"? Is it pouring, or are there "blue suburban skies"? All of the above—the song encompasses multiple and separate moments as the linearity of time folds back unto itself.
Anyhow...
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Post by millring on Nov 11, 2014 16:35:18 GMT -5
I'm presenting a concert by a Berlin-based US guitarist playing music by Berliners. Does that count? I am a jelly donut.
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Post by billhammond on Nov 11, 2014 16:47:58 GMT -5
I'm presenting a concert by a Berlin-based US guitarist playing music by Berliners. Does that count? I am a jelly donut. I am the walrus, goo goo g'joob.
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Post by millring on Nov 11, 2014 16:55:43 GMT -5
I am the walrus, goo goo g'joob. I am, I said, to no one there. And no one heard at all. Not even the chair.
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Post by Doug on Nov 11, 2014 17:35:30 GMT -5
I yam what I yam
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Post by Hobson on Nov 11, 2014 18:10:00 GMT -5
The fall of the Berlin Wall was why I made a career change. Mr. H worked for a high tech company that did a lot of work for the military. I was an auditor for the Defense Department. It was scary that spending on such things might be cut. He had a lot more years in than I did and I could find a job at another federal agency and not lose any benefits. Worked out OK for me and, even though he stayed at the same company, he eventually ended up working on such things as a satellite phone system.
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Post by Doug on Nov 11, 2014 19:51:24 GMT -5
Still waiting for the Peace Bonus. We've done a wonderful job of finding someone to attack for the last 25 yrs. Ronnie Ray Guns did a better job, at least he kept in this hemisphere and attacked people we could beat.
Perpetual war for the sole purpose of increasing government power at the cost of liberty. You better be scared of the boogie man and give us the right to search with out warrant, arrest with out charging, take property with out due process, spy one everyone.
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Post by dradtke on Nov 12, 2014 10:16:19 GMT -5
Perpetual war for the sole purpose of increasing corporate profits selling to the government.
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Post by Doug on Nov 12, 2014 10:23:49 GMT -5
Perpetual war for the sole purpose of increasing corporate profits selling to the government. corporate = government When you incorporate you take government as a partner in your business. So every incorporated business is a part of government. I know that some small businesses are forced by tax and liability laws to incorporate and I feel sorry for them, having been one of them at one time.
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Post by jdd2 on Nov 12, 2014 11:49:36 GMT -5
Still waiting for the Peace Bonus. We've done a wonderful job of finding someone to attack for the last 25 yrs. Ronnie Ray Guns did a better job, at least he kept in this hemisphere and attacked people we could beat. Perpetual war for the sole purpose of increasing government power at the cost of liberty. You better be scared of the boogie man and give us the right to search with out warrant, arrest with out charging, take property with out due process, spy one everyone. +1
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