http://www.porcelainonsteel.com/2009/11/watching-the-world-wake-up-from-history-the-fall-of-the-berlin-wall/ Real Leaders | Real Life Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:55:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.porcelainonsteel.com/2009/11/watching-the-world-wake-up-from-history-the-fall-of-the-berlin-wall/comment-page-1/#comment-68 Michael Broski Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:48:47 +0000 http://www.porcelainonsteel.com/?p=478#comment-68 Great 1st Person account of history in the making! I remember seeing pieces of the wall that were treated like artifacts recovered from an ancient land. This was such a captivating event for all who came of those who came of age during the Cold War. That time was such a time of hope for a world that would be free of nuclear weapons and the strange strategic/tactical terminolgy that came with them: terms like MAD-Mutual Assured Destruction; throw-weights; pay loads that were discussed as if they were terms in a Monopoly game. Scary childhood memories of air raid drills in deathily, silent, darkened hallways outside of our grade school classrooms and tales of certain death in the event of a first strike Nuclear attack on a local Air Force Base now seemed to fade away to the possibility that there really could be peace. Great 1st Person account of history in the making! I remember seeing pieces of the wall that were treated like artifacts recovered from an ancient land. This was such a captivating event for all who came of those who came of age during the Cold War. That time was such a time of hope for a world that would be free of nuclear weapons and the strange strategic/tactical terminolgy that came with them: terms like MAD-Mutual Assured Destruction; throw-weights; pay loads that were discussed as if they were terms in a Monopoly game. Scary childhood memories of air raid drills in deathily, silent, darkened hallways outside of our grade school classrooms and tales of certain death in the event of a first strike Nuclear attack on a local Air Force Base now seemed to fade away to the possibility that there really could be peace.

]]> http://www.porcelainonsteel.com/2009/11/watching-the-world-wake-up-from-history-the-fall-of-the-berlin-wall/comment-page-1/#comment-49 Michael Broski Tue, 10 Nov 2009 03:48:47 +0000 http://www.porcelainonsteel.com/?p=478#comment-49 Great 1st Person account of history in the making! I remember seeing pieces of the wall that were treated like artifacts recovered from an ancient land. This was such a captivating event for all who came of those who came of age during the Cold War. That time was such a time of hope for a world that would be free of nuclear weapons and the strange strategic/tactical terminolgy that came with them: terms like MAD-Mutual Assured Destruction; throw-weights; pay loads that were discussed as if they were terms in a Monopoly game. Scary childhood memories of air raid drills in deathily, silent, darkened hallways outside of our grade school classrooms and tales of certain death in the event of a first strike Nuclear attack on a local Air Force Base now seemed to fade away to the possibility that there really could be peace. Great 1st Person account of history in the making! I remember seeing pieces of the wall that were treated like artifacts recovered from an ancient land. This was such a captivating event for all who came of those who came of age during the Cold War. That time was such a time of hope for a world that would be free of nuclear weapons and the strange strategic/tactical terminolgy that came with them: terms like MAD-Mutual Assured Destruction; throw-weights; pay loads that were discussed as if they were terms in a Monopoly game. Scary childhood memories of air raid drills in deathily, silent, darkened hallways outside of our grade school classrooms and tales of certain death in the event of a first strike Nuclear attack on a local Air Force Base now seemed to fade away to the possibility that there really could be peace.

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