20 years since the Berlin Wall came down

[koster]

The 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall today, and Google are celebrating... the 20th anniversary of Sesame Street.

[babybop6379]

its 40yrs since sesame street.

[123everton]

Elmo was a secet agent, they used him in honey traps to snare Erich Honicker and Marshall Tito.
How that poor little fellow suffered, he deserves a medal, a purple heart to match his purple ars

[koster]

Whatever... my point was that it's a bit odd to find Google celebrating something so trivial when there's a much more momentous anniversary on the same day.

[buffer]

In 1961 I was in Germany on an exchange visit,staying in Bielefeld, Westphalia. My parents were,understandably, very worried because of the escalation of the cold war and the building of the Berlin Wall. I can remember being taken to see part of the border,the sentry towers and the mined stretch of no-man's land and I'm sure I can remember also seeing houses which formed part of the border. My question is, could I have seen that? Looking at a map of the border it seems to me that it would have been a very long journey from Bielefeld to the border and surely we couldn't have gone into East Germany to see the wall round Berlin,which is where houses were part of the wall?