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Archive 2009 · Anyone have any photos?

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p.1 #1 · Anyone have any photos?

November 9th, 1989, 20 years ago today, the Berlin Wall fell, any Nikonians have photos of the Wall then or Now that you care to post?

Nov 09, 2009 at 02:53 AM

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p.1 #2 · Anyone have any photos?

nope. we were busy trying to build it back

Nov 09, 2009 at 05:05 AM

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p.1 #3 · Anyone have any photos?

No. I was in West Germany and, not being a photojournalist, had no interest in getting involved in such activities, much less bringing a camera (F4s back then) into a potentially difficult situation.

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Nov 09, 2009 at 05:21 AM

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p.1 #4 · Anyone have any photos?

i was watching tv back then....

Nov 09, 2009 at 07:38 AM

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p.1 #5 · Anyone have any photos?

I was 11.

Nov 09, 2009 at 08:45 AM

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p.1 #6 · Anyone have any photos?

panos.v wrote:
I was 11.

I was 2.

Nov 09, 2009 at 08:56 AM

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I was 6, but my dad was in the Royal Air Force stationed in Germany when it happened, we drove over there literally days after it happened, I don't really remember a lot about it, but he tells me stories of East German soldiers on patrol telling us they hadn't been paid for weeks, and entire streets of table stalls set up by war veterans - both German and Russian selling their medals to buy food.

One of the very few times I wish I was older, what I'd give to be this age back then and go there!

Nov 09, 2009 at 09:12 AM

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p.1 #8 · Anyone have any photos?

Unfortunately I was home on leave and missed it. It really bummed me out

David

Nov 09, 2009 at 01:05 PM

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p.1 #9 · Anyone have any photos?

Gregory.Rotter wrote:
panos.v wrote:
I was 11.

I was 2.

I turned 27 that day. Not a bad b-day present...

Nov 09, 2009 at 01:33 PM

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p.1 #10 · Anyone have any photos?

Don't we now have one of our (US) own - somewhere down by the Rio Grande?

Nov 09, 2009 at 02:07 PM

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p.1 #11 · Anyone have any photos?

I escaped 1987 from Czechoslovakia that time I was not able to come back.Yet!

Yes we never will forget that day!
Same as was august 21st 1968 longest russian vacation at Czechoslovakia

Nov 09, 2009 at 02:53 PM

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p.1 #12 · Anyone have any photos?

Slideshow: Now and then in Berlin

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33787413/ns/news-picture_stories/displaymode/1247/?beginSlide=1

Nov 09, 2009 at 03:51 PM

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p.1 #13 · Anyone have any photos?

Jozef ... we escaped in 68 when the Russians invaded. I still remember them shooting the old lady who used to babysit me and the tanks on the side of street. Yeah, the history may be faded in many peoples minds now ... but it pays to sometimes reflect on the traumatic parts of the past ... just to put the brakes on a bit on the tendency to re-do the same things and excuse them by the little details that do differ.

Nov 09, 2009 at 04:21 PM

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p.1 #14 · Anyone have any photos?

Pavel, you summed it up perfectly.

Peace,

Todd

Nov 09, 2009 at 04:24 PM

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Pavel
I was 8 years old when tanks were coming non stop 24h for couple days.
My father was watching TV station and crying with TV reporter when she was saying they are coming to room and TV went blank..
History will never faded.I hope not.

Nov 09, 2009 at 05:49 PM

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p.1 #16 · Anyone have any photos?

Jozef wrote:
History will never faded.I hope not.

but anyone think we'll ever learn...

Nov 09, 2009 at 06:00 PM

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p.1 #17 · Anyone have any photos?

I remember crying tears of joy watching that d@mn wall come down. I visited Berlin in 1985 and crossed via Checkpoint Charlie into the East. I still get choked up watching it come down.

Nov 10, 2009 at 02:15 AM

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p.1 #18 · Anyone have any photos?

All thanks to this guy, whose name was not even mentioned today in Germany.
And thanks to him i can write in English today.

At this time 20 years ago i was in Italy waiting for permission to come here, and was watching everything unfolding on TV.

Sergey.

2012 © BluePixel

2012 © BluePixel

Nov 10, 2009 at 04:23 AM

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p.1 #19 · Anyone have any photos?

A couple from the museum here of the replicas:

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Nov 10, 2009 at 12:41 PM

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p.1 #20 · Anyone have any photos?

No Photos, but just watched the German movie "The Tunnel." HIGHLY recommend it, and am always curious how historically accurate movies like it are...

Nov 10, 2009 at 12:47 PM

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p.1 #21 · Anyone have any photos?

BluePixel wrote:
All thanks to this guy, whose name was not even mentioned today in Germany.
And thanks to him i can write in English today.

At this time 20 years ago i was in Italy waiting for permission to come here, and was watching everything unfolding on TV.

Sergey.

Thanks to Reagan and thanks to this man too. Two great heros of the time.

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Nov 10, 2009 at 02:21 PM

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p.1 #22 · Anyone have any photos?

wasn't even born...

Nov 10, 2009 at 11:52 PM

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p.1 #23 · Anyone have any photos?

Pavel wrote:
Jozef ... we escaped in 68 when the Russians invaded. I still remember them shooting the old lady who used to babysit me and the tanks on the side of street. Yeah, the history may be faded in many peoples minds now ... but it pays to sometimes reflect on the traumatic parts of the past ... just to put the brakes on a bit on the tendency to re-do the same things and excuse them by the little details that do differ.

Wow Pavel, that is wisdom!

Nov 11, 2009 at 12:32 AM

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p.1 #24 · Anyone have any photos?

East Germany was the only European country I did not travel to in the '80 when I lived there. I came close about two years before the wall fell; being 18 and in the presence of machineguns was not something new to me then, but I remember touching the wall and still feeling the other side was a thousand km away.

Nov 11, 2009 at 03:43 PM

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p.1 #25 · Anyone have any photos?

Pavel wrote:
Don't we now have one of our (US) own - somewhere down by the Rio Grande?

...there's also one slowly rising on the north, near the 49th parallel!

Nov 11, 2009 at 03:46 PM


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