Today I was watching the celebrations of the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Wall in Berlin on German TV (Deutsche Welle) that I can now pull in with my new cable connection. Gorbachev, Lech Walesa, Placido Domingo, Daniel Barenboim, Sarkozy, Brown, Hillary Clinton, even Medvedev were there with Chancellor Angela Merkel.
It was a very moving event, especially for me who walked through the Brandenburg Gate at 1:30 in the morning on a bitter cold night in November 1999, still wondering how this could have become possible during my lifetime…
This day brought up a lot of old memories and the realization how lucky I have been compared to so many others.
