Riding through Checkpoint Charlie on a U.S. Army bus during the Cold War was an eerily formal experience.Riding through Checkpoint Charlie Checkpoint Charlie was the name given by the Western Allies to a crossing point between East Berlin and West Berlin during the Cold War. Other Allied checkpoints on the Autobahn on a U.S. Army bus during the Cold War was an eerily ee·rie or ee·ry adj. ee·ri·er, ee·ri·est 1. a. Inspiring inexplicable fear, dread, or uneasiness; strange and frightening. b. Suggestive of the supernatural; mysterious. See Synonyms at weird. formal experience. By the protocol the powers had worked out, the bus had to stop, while East German guards circled it. But they could not board; American military personnel removed their name tags, so they could not be read. The Army could go back and forth because we had as many nukes as the Communists. Individuals were not so lucky. One thousand and sixty-five were murdered by the East German regime, mostly trying to cross the Berlin Wall to freedom. After the Wall finally fell, Alexandra Hildebrandt, a private citizen, founded a museum at the spot, complete with 1,065 crosses. But it rankled the Communist and Social Democratic politicians who run reunited "Reunited" was a #1 hit in the United States in 1979 by the Washington, D.C.-based group Peaches & Herb. Preceded by "Heart of Glass" by Blondie Billboard Hot 100 number one single May 5 1979 Succeeded by "Hot Stuff" by Donna Summer Berlin. They sold the land for private development, and the museum will be bulldozed, on July Fourth, no less. Churchill was right: The Hun Hun Any member of a nomadic pastoralist people who invaded southeastern Europe c. AD 370. Appearing from central Asia after the mid-4th century, they first overran the Alani, who occupied the plains between the Volga and Don rivers, and then overthrew the Ostrogoths is either at your feet or at your throat. |
|
||||||||||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion