My father was stationed in Heidelberg when he was in the US Army. Not yet a citizen, he served 4 years during the Vietnam conflict. During his time in Germany, he visited West Berlin and stood looking over "no mans land" when he was there.
It is hard to imagine now how the partitioned city appeared to my father as a young, newly married man.
29 years ago, that ugly wall came down and East and West Berlin reunified and Germany became whole again. Could my father then have imagine such a change?
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