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Guest Blogger: Coldwarrior

Today is November 9^th, 2009. Twenty years ago today, yours truly, Coldwarrior, was assigned to the US Army, West Berlin. That evening, the East Germans gave up and let the checkpoints open up for travel. Their system had been unwinding for months, this was the final act. In June of 1987, President Reagen told Gorbachev to tear down this wall. No one on the ground in Berlin thought it could happen. Reagan, as usual, was right and it did come down.

Fast forward twenty years, just this past weekend we had a terrorist act at Ft Hood, and a terrorist act in Washington D.C. With the Democrats passing health care reform that could, if it passes the Senate, take over 1/5^th of the American economy.

So with twenty years under our belts from the collapse of communism (I know, the soviets didn’t fall until 1991…) I ask this, are we better off as a country now, after the massive effort called the Cold War? Or are we worse off by emptying one can of worms and opening another with these jihadis and progressives?

Tags: Berlin Wall, Remembrance

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