DV1312

What's so slow here? My brother was born a few years after Voyager but he hasn't even entered LEO once in all that time.

SPOILER ALARM! Are you even allowed to tell us this?

Europe here. Do you like to go to the prom Mars with us? Or should we ask Russia?

Especially interesting is the West Berlin perspective.

There were three important speeches in West Berlin that have historical significance. 1948, 1963, 1987. Only the first two are widely remembered by West Berliners.

1948 during the year long airlift of West Berlin, Ernst Reuter held an unbelievable speech, somewhere between pathos and despair: "People of the world …. look upon this city! You cannot, you must not, forsake us!"

1963 came Kennedy. Ich bin ein Berliner is basically the slogan of the city by now. To have him say this at the height of the Cold War was very important to West Berliners - The Wall was built just two years prior and everything was still in a state of uncertainty. To get backup from such a charismatic, energetic president was a welcome change for them.

Reagans speech now came at a time where life in West Berlin was basically working just fine. The wall had been there for two dozen years and a normality of life had developed. The crazy days of the late 60's and early 70's were over, West Berlin was prosperous and one of the youngest cities in Europe. And many had their doubts about opening the wall at that point in time - looking over it they saw a crumbling East that looked shabby and kind of useless.

So the main reason why Reagans speech isn't held as dearly as the other two is because it didn't really come at a time of need or uncertainty for West Berlin.

Were there any manner of tools involved, or did you just tear at it with your own hands?

Berliners are pretty hardcore people but clawing and chewing on concrete is too much to ask from them ;)