MOC Day 11- We're flooding now
- Description
- On this day: 09.11.1989 the Berlin wall fell...
The title is what the border officers said at the border crossing when they decided to open the first barrier to the thousands of people waiting to go and take a look.
My journaling translated (215 words in the original, 206 translated)
On 09.11.1989 I was 22 years old and that day has stayed in my memory as a day when the unbelievable happened. It doesn't matter whether you were immediately concerned or whether nothing special happened to you on that day, the events that took place then make everyone still cry now. I was in the GDR only twice, once when visiting relatives and once on the way to West Berlin- What I remembered most was that is a place without a lot of colour. Today I watched a few You Tube Videos to refreshen my memory and - oh man - I started crying right away again. The protest without violence, the moral courage of Harald Jäger who opened the first barrier - at Bornholmer Straße -, the joy of the people who only wanted to come and take a look - not leave forever, the masses on the wall in front of the Brandenburg Gate... that is unforgettable.
Almost a year later we received this letter from Werner who posted it on 02.10.1990 with the last of the stamps that he had. The postal stamp says the date of the last day of the GDR. The following day it was history and Germany was one again.
Credits:
TLP collab Happy (incl. the template by Fiddle Dee dee that I stripped almost bare)
https://the-lilypad.com/store/COLLAB-Happy.html
Font: Gauthier
photo of the wall is from Wikimedia commons
