Germany, amid big crowds and some special appearances by world leaders, is celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Berlin Wall’s fall. And the wall falls again – this time a symbolic wall of giant dominoes, many of them created by children who live in countries where there are, in effect, political walls. The BBC has the details in this report:
UPDATE: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton represented the United States at the celebration but President Barack Obama made a surprise visit…via video address.
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.