tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5802909623218360423.post2186840554395956889..comments2017-09-23T00:51:18.306-07:00Comments on Vitality Leaps: Where were you at the fall?Just mehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12485031188600753696noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5802909623218360423.post-14099884496920507002009-11-14T08:12:47.986-08:002009-11-14T08:12:47.986-08:00just returning to England having lived in South Af...just returning to England having lived in South Africa for 7 years - coming back to be with Mark (if only I had known then........)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5802909623218360423.post-41297958739546164752009-11-13T06:48:02.797-08:002009-11-13T06:48:02.797-08:00I was watching it on television in amazement. I ne...I was watching it on television in amazement. I never thought I would see it fall in my lifetime.<br />I spent 4 years in the U.S. Army in Western Germany only 7 years prior to the fall. I was the first woman tank mechanic with the largest army armored brigade in the free world. We worked constantly, 7 days a week, to keep that brigade ready to fight "Soviet aggression" should they decide to invade through the Fulda Gap, which is a strategic invasion point for that area of Germany.<br />Although I was not present when the wall fell, I felt suddenly satisfied and happy that I played an indirect part of it. Luckily, my sister and brother-in-law were present during the fall, and helped to smash it. I have a single, small, green spray-painted pebble that I keep on display. It's a pebble of freedom, baby!Renee Stokleyhttp://www.honeyhandguitars.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5802909623218360423.post-42216820611789814932009-11-12T22:01:25.911-08:002009-11-12T22:01:25.911-08:00Feeling very lucky as I happened to be studying ab...Feeling very lucky as I happened to be studying abroad in Spain in my senior year of college. I was sitting in my Madrid apartment with my 5 other roommates watching the news. I made the decision right then that I would use my 1 month Eurail pass at the end of the semester to get to Berlin to get myself a piece of the wall! I still have those pieces somewhere around here....Betsynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5802909623218360423.post-60588361207456020822009-11-12T05:35:15.154-08:002009-11-12T05:35:15.154-08:00I was an undergraduate then. I didn't have a ...I was an undergraduate then. I didn't have a television and was too deep in my studies to pay much attention to the news at all, so I missed most of the events that led up to it. When I heard that the Wall had come down, it came as quite a surprise.Aciliushttp://losthunderlads.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.com