Today I am returning to my chronological episodes. This one takes us back to my previous stories that took place in 1989. It just so happens that this week, is the German holiday, celebrating the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. The national holiday is called “Tag der Deutschen Einheit” (the Day of German Unity). This event impacted us personally, because Thomas grew up in West Berlin, and his family was living there.
At the first break of the news about the borders beingopened, my mother in law Nadja, had called us on the Thursday evening, of November 1989. Thomas was then immediately on the phone with our friends in Munich, who saw the news on TV that evening. This is what happened:
