Reunited Berlin--Happy 21st Birthday!
It's the 21st anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall and the birth of a new a re-united Berlin. In 1989 the Wall crumbled before the freedom wave which was sweeping Middle Europe.
Just last year, in a stirring and heartfelt tribute to the United States and its people, German Chancellor Angela Merkel addressed a joint session of the U.S. Congress in Washington DC and outlined the post-war relationship between the United States and a politically free, and now united, Germany. Speaking to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall on 9 November 1989, Chancellor Merkel underscored the close political partnership between Germany and the USA..
Angela Merkel, who herself grew up in former communist East Germany, offered unequivocal praise for the role American administrations played in the long fight to bring democracy and freedom not only to divided Germany but to Eastern Europe as a whole.
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