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Article: WITNESSES RECALL BERLIN WALL'S FALL
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- November 7, 2009
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WASHINGTON, Nov. 6 -- The U.S. Department of Defense's American Forces Information Service issued the following press release:
A divided Berlin symbolized the Cold War.
The Berlin Wall was a concrete example of the divide between East and West, between totalitarianism and democracy, between communism and capitalism.
For millions of U.S. servicemembers, the celebratory scenes at the fall of the Berlin Wall on Nov. 9, 1989, were cause for deep satisfaction.
Since World War II, millions of soldiers, airmen, sailors and Marines held the line in West Germany. Their very presence was enough to secure half a continent for freedom. When the wall fell, more than 300,000 American servicemembers were ...