Cspan3. We are taking your phone calls and getting your thoughts and memories from 30 years ago today, the fall of the berlin wall on november 9, 1989. Phone lines to join us this morning, 202 7488000 if you live in the eastern or central time zones. 202 7488001 if you are in the mountain or pacific time zones. For 7488002 germanamericans. That special line this morning. We have our phone line that we keep for Text Messages. 202 7488003. A few Text Messages come in so far this morning. I want to review a couple of them. Rights,ew york city when the wall came down we took the train from amsterdam to berlin. Patrolled by east german soldiers with rifles. At the brandenburg gate, east germans came across to stand in the west which was all they could do with no money. I cried with relief and joy in disbelief. I thought it would never come down. Im a minister woman. The desire for i am a midwestern woman. The desire for freedom is a powerful force. I was 10 years old. My teacher was a berli
East germany into west germany. Almostppened was until 1989, the news for the east germans was tightened more and more. Wethe 1950s and 1960s could send clothing and packages to east germany for the people because they did not have very much. Eventually we had to send new clothing. I sent american dollars when i came to this country in carbon paper to east germany so the woman could buy some groceries. I experience the hungarian revolution. That berlin or east germany would become free. I have a person in east germany that i called and he was very drunk because he never thought the wall would come down. I never thought it did. I cried and cried and cried. I had visited east germany in 1959 with [speaking german]. E traveled to various cities the people that housed us, that gave us meals, they were so thrilled, and i dont know how they afforded food in 1959. To feed us. And the best menus restaurants you could go to. For me, germany was united. , but born in east russia. O me, germany u
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Put on the mantle piece so i was glad to get it. I thanked him for it and i was going to waco to do some research at baylor, wrapped it up in old dirty tshirts and put it carefully in my suitcase and went down to waco in the rental car the next day, spoke well and came back and went to the airport at dfw, checked the bag to go to washington because i was going up there to a smithsonian program. I spent a few days at my brothers doing research in the archives. Did that, the jar still wrapped up in its tshirt. Went back after i finished to the airport, checked the bag to go back to my home in americas where i was living then and changed planes in atlanta and they changed the bag to the little world war i plane that they used between atlanta and albany, georgia. Got down to albany, picked up my suitcase, put it in the car and drove back. I was convinced that bell jar was broken and there would be a million pieces of glass and i would have to throw out everything in the suitcase, but i got
Through the first thing i would say is there is this misconception that people say oh, shermans men cut a swath 50 miles wide or 60 miles wide. That is i always tell my students you dont want to think of it like a lawn mower strip. It is not 50 miles wide of lawn mower. It is 50 miles from the edge of one column through four columns to the furthest edge of the other. So in many ways it is very what is the word oim looking for. Not sporadic or episodic. But sometimes a house is targeting and other houses a mile away are not targeted. That being said, where shermans men and him and African American African Americans is a really interesting question. I love pauls that shermans army was probably one to great armies of liberation. They are not probably very willing liberators. Sherman was not certainly not a fan of racial equality or after the war according civil rights to African Americans. He did not he was perfectly content as they went on the to plantations to have his men liberate the