Originally Posted by GoldenRivet (Post 1201510)

I was 10 years old.

I dont remember much other than the fact that my entire family was on a road trip en route from Texas to my grandparents home in Kentucky.

We were checking out of our hotel very early in the morning when we first heard of it.

We were in the car, waiting for my dad to come back out from checking out of the hotel and it was all over the radio.

I remember not knowing much about what the berlin wall was... all i really knew was that some bad people put it up and it was keeping family members on one side of the wall from seeing their other family members on the other side of the wall. I also knew it was something my mom and dad seemed rather glad to hear about. so it is an exciting albeit brief moment in my memory.

some weeks later, my teacher presented this rather uninteresting chunk of concrete about the size of a soda can and told us that it was a piece of the Berlin wall... it was another one of those things that was passed around the room, each student taking a few seconds to check it out before handing it to the next student... the signifigance of the little chunk of concrete almost completely lost on each of us at the time no doubt.

Originally Posted by nikimcbee (Post 1201514)

They have a section of the Wall here at the evergreen museum (in ore-gone) you should fly out here and see it:yeah:.