22 years ago, the words were burnt into my soul, "Mr Gorbachev, Tear Down this wall!" The distinct membrane separating freedom and communism, did fall 2 years later.
20 years later, assembled at the Brandenburg Gate were Mikhail Gorbachev, Chancellor Angela Merkel and the face which graced many of my essays, LECH WALESA. On the screen is an older but familiar face from 20 years ago. Not someone I really looked up to, but whose tenacity I admired. The Miner who freed Poland, united under "Solidarity". Who are missing from this gathering of historical figures? Let's examine, Perestroika is credited to Mikhail Gorbachev, Lech Walesa brought a country to their feet, Chancellor Merkel was a West German who now leads a unified Germany. Oh yes, Chancellor Helmut Kohl headed Germany 20 years ago is absent. The trio stood somber, as the rain mists, the obvious absence of another drapes this picture with a slight mourn.
No roar will be loud enough if we could hear President Ronald Reagan, standing alongside Gorbachev, "Gorby, give me a 5. We did it."
"If we don't fight for freedom, someday we will sit on our porch telling our grandchildren what it was like to live free."
And another daily lesson.
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A Merlion is the National Symbol of Singapore, a cross between a MERMAID and a LION. National bragging rights: gluttony. (oh yeah we can eat)
