Tuesday, June 12, 2007
"Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!"
20 years ago today.
http://www.reaganfoundation.org/reagan/speeches/wall.asp
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tear_down_this_wall
http://powerlineblog.com/archives/017914.php
That last link is from the guy who wrote the speech - amazing.
[quote]The Elzes and their guests glanced at each other uneasily. Then one man raised an arm and pointed. “My sister lives twenty miles in that direction,” he said. “I haven’t seen her in more than two decades. Do you think I can get used to that?” Another man spoke. As he walked to work each morning, he explained, a soldier in a guard tower peered down at him through binoculars. “That soldier and I speak the same language. We share the same history. But one of us is a zookeeper and the other is an animal, and I am never certain which is which.”
Our hostess broke in. A gracious woman, Ingeborg Elz had suddenly grown angry. Her face was red. She made a fist with one hand and pounded it into the palm of the other. “If this man Gorbachev is serious with his talk of glasnost and perestroika,” she said, “he can prove it. He can get rid of this wall.”[/quote]
http://www.reaganfoundation.org/reagan/speeches/wall.asp
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tear_down_this_wall
http://powerlineblog.com/archives/017914.php
That last link is from the guy who wrote the speech - amazing.
[quote]The Elzes and their guests glanced at each other uneasily. Then one man raised an arm and pointed. “My sister lives twenty miles in that direction,” he said. “I haven’t seen her in more than two decades. Do you think I can get used to that?” Another man spoke. As he walked to work each morning, he explained, a soldier in a guard tower peered down at him through binoculars. “That soldier and I speak the same language. We share the same history. But one of us is a zookeeper and the other is an animal, and I am never certain which is which.”
Our hostess broke in. A gracious woman, Ingeborg Elz had suddenly grown angry. Her face was red. She made a fist with one hand and pounded it into the palm of the other. “If this man Gorbachev is serious with his talk of glasnost and perestroika,” she said, “he can prove it. He can get rid of this wall.”[/quote]
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