As a sophomore spending a college year abroad (1967 – 1968), a friend and I thumbed around Europe during our free time and eventually visited Berlin.
The Berlin Wall separated East and West Berlin at the time. However, Westerners were allowed to visit East Berlin with “day passes “ issued by the German Democratic Republic, the Stalin-installed government of East Germany.
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My friend and I got one of those passes and went into East Berlin. We encountered two young East Germans, who repeatedly requested we exchange our dollars with them. Believe me when I say my friend and I were thumbing because we had minimal funds.
Nevertheless, we exchanged ten American dollars each for East German money. When returning to the East Berlin checkpoint that day, we tried to exchange the East German money back to American dollars. The checkpoint guards detained us and interrogated us separately for three hours. To our relief, we were finally released, avoiding a possible international incident and probable dismissal from our University!
JFK proclaimed, in a famous speech at the Berlin Wall on June 26, 1963, “Ich bin ein Berliner.” Ronald Reagan, also at the Berlin Wall, against the advice of all his advisors, on June 12, 1987, demanded, “Mr. Gorbachev, Tear down this Wall.”
We all know what happened.
Let me assure everyone that JFK and Reagan never dreamed that some American politicians would try to build a so-called “Blue Wall”!
Kamala Harris, Joe Biden, and the Demolitioncrats believe they built a “Blue Wall” in certain American states to win the 2024 election.
MAGA Americans led by Donald Trump will repeat the accomplishments of JFK and Ronald Reagan and tear down that “Blue Wall” on election day. The echoes of history will be heard as the “Blue Wall” comes crashing down.
