Berlin '89

Oberon · 11-09-09, 07:34 AM

So, what are your recollections of the day the wall came down?

Myself, I was five at the time, and I used to go to bed at seven pm and was meant to be asleep by nine, however, being that age, it was usually more like ten

I had a television in my room, in fact, I have the same television in my room right now and used to have it on from seven onwards until my Mum or Dad came up at turned it off when they went to bed and I was asleep. It was the droning of things like the ten o clock news and things like Newsnight that helped me drift off to sleep.
However, tonight the news was different, it was earlier for one thing and there was people climbing on this wall, and smashing it with pickaxes and sledgehammers, there was celebration as parts of it came down and everyone was smiling. Even for a five year old, it was clear that this was something special.

11-09-09, 07:34 AM	#1
Oberon Lucky Jack Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 25,976 Downloads: 61 Uploads: 20	Berlin '89 So, what are your recollections of the day the wall came down? Myself, I was five at the time, and I used to go to bed at seven pm and was meant to be asleep by nine, however, being that age, it was usually more like ten I had a television in my room, in fact, I have the same television in my room right now and used to have it on from seven onwards until my Mum or Dad came up at turned it off when they went to bed and I was asleep. It was the droning of things like the ten o clock news and things like Newsnight that helped me drift off to sleep. However, tonight the news was different, it was earlier for one thing and there was people climbing on this wall, and smashing it with pickaxes and sledgehammers, there was celebration as parts of it came down and everyone was smiling. Even for a five year old, it was clear that this was something special.