Protests started in Berlin which culminated in the wall coming down on the 9th. Many didnt think that would ever happen. A year later the Soviet Union collapsed.


What were you up to during the Berlin protests? Did you think it was going to happen?

I was trapping. Europe was a big player in the fur biz in those days. But wasn’t long fore they got religion.

I was in a hotel in Cave City, Kentucky when I heard the wall fell. We were visiting Mammoth Cave and Kentucky Down Under.

Keith

I remember this speech:



Two years later checkpoints were opened and the wall began coming down.

I was driving for the Hercules powder company in 1989. They had a contract to produce an explosive called nitro guanidine at a plant near De Soto KS for the military. Trapping season hadn't opened yet. Was still a week away. Was a good job while it lasted. 40 hours a week like everybody else in the world and home every day.

I’m pretty sure I was thinking about hunting, trapping, and a girl. I got the girl and still love the other two!!

Don't remember what I had for lunch, let alone 30 years ago!

I was six years old, I’m pretty sure I didn’t have an opinion.

I think I was in Burma or Thailand

Portable crushing crew. Making big rocks into little ones.

I remember watching on TV and being told we were watching history happen. I'm a big Cold War buff and have a room full of East German and Soviet memorabilia. When The Soviet Union collapsed on Dec. 24 1991 we were told a new era of peace and prosperity would be ushered in, sadly that never happened.

I remember it happening ,that's the year I ask my wife to marry me

My German born grandparents made several trips to East Germany before the wall came down to visit relatives. Grandma once shared that each time she smuggled sausages stuck down inside her nylon hosing to deliver to her sister.

I was relatively young but was considered an old soul for alittle boy. I was amazed at it happening. I remember watching videos of when the US was doing air drops of food and reading about the no mans land. And to see a bunch of people dancing and singing on it was nuts.

I never did see that Reagan speech but ive probably have heard that quote a million times.

My stepfather parent were from Germany, not sure where. They came here in the 50s. I think that mightve been the reason I was keenly aware of what was going on.

My grandmother's mother came over on the boat with Grandma. What I recall as a boy back in the 50s was she lived in a very small house on the same street in La Crosse and had very few possessions. The only time my borther and I saw her was on Christmas, and we were told not to eat any of the candy she gave us. The house always smelled very bad, unlike anything I can remember.

When she passed they tore her house down. In the walls of the living room especially and others, behind the pictures, were holes where she had slid food down to "save for later." Grandma told me she had a very poor childhood.

We have no clue.