Editorial

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Cow in Berlin before...    ...and after 9-Nov-1989

It would seem that the Fall of the Wall should be celebrated by more than the ASCII cows on this, the tenth anniversary of the event. Yet it's largely gone unnoticed, getting only brief mention on talk radio and little or no attention by the press.

It was probably the most unexpected event of my life. The Wall in Berlin had stood ever since I could remember, and I never imagined that it would someday come down. Though the nuclear danger was stressed in talk about monolithic Communism when I was younger, the more powerful symbol of human oppression was the Wall. Destroying the world fifty times over was, possibly, too terrible to be believable... but a place where people were brutally shot down time after time brought home the value of freedom.

Perhaps the lack of celebration today is because the rest of the world was wiser than I, and realized that all oppression would ultimately fail. But I didn't know that nor even have hopes of it... until the Wall came down.

Even Fido politics pales in comparison...

Doug Myers