The Top Three Ways To Remember The Fall Of The Berlin Wall

November 9, 2009 at 9:29 AM | by JetSetCD | Comments (0)

Today in Berlin, a united city celebrates the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Twenty years is not such a long time, and thus the partiers are peppered with those who not only remember the division of the Wall, but perhaps also participated in the breaking down of it in 1989.

You can imagine how boisterous Berlin is today, and we would love to be there, but we just got back from Berlin a few months ago. So, like you, we're anxious to join in the joy from home by remembering the Wall in other ways. We'll leave the 33,000-strong flash mob to those in Germany right now, and instead focus on The Top 3 Ways To Remember The Fall Of The Berlin Wall...from afar.

· Visit the pieces on display around the USA
If you think that the Berlin Wall is long gone, or that the only remaining pieces sit in Berlin still, then you've been missing out. After the fall of the wall twenty years ago, whole chunks of the much-graffitied thing were passed out around the world, and some still sit as somber monuments to what war can do. USA Today has a comprehensive map of where to find these pieces across the the US, from a museum in Grand Rapids, Michigan to a theatre in Aurora, Colorado, and even nearby the World Trade Center site in New York City's Battery Park.

· Watch "Roger Waters: The Wall: Live In Berlin"
This is the live performance of the Pink Floyd's rock opera The Wall on the very spot where the Berlin Wall once stood, about one year after it came down. Although the songs aren't about the Berlin Wall—it's focused on the protagonist's own self struggles—the performance utilized the power of the recent history of the Berlin Wall to deliver a goosebump-makingly great show starring the likes of Van Morrison, Sinead O'Connor, Cyndi Lauper, Joni Mitchell and The Scorpions.

· Head to the "20 Years Since The Fall of the Wall" website
It may be in German, but this interactive, informational website from the Berlin Morning Post illustrates the original borders of the wall, and features a chronology of major events involving it, complete with historical photographs and a clickable map of major sites around the wall.

Related Stories:
· 20 Years Since The Fall of the Wall [Berlin Morgenpost]
· Remembering the Wall [Adverblog]
· Pieces of history across the USA [USAToday]
· Historical Travel [Jaunted]

[Photo: Berlin Morgenpost]

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