OK... I was sent to Berlin for a couple of weeks of training with my company. I was lucky enough to be sent here during the German Reunification Day. I took some pictures I would like to share with the folks back in the US...
Even though I am not German, I had a number of tears during the ceremony. Afterwords, I got to thinking that maybe if we had done this in our country, we may not have red states and blue states... But then, we weren't taken over by another (so-called hostile) government...
Please follow me over the jump for some really neat pictures...
At Brandenburger Tor (the Brandenburg Gate, east side...)
The Daughter (which represents the East Side) is brought over...
The father is reunited with his daughter...
Father and daughter embrace...
Father and daughter (East and West) reunited...
The whole ceremony was really moving and brought tears to my eyes. We have been blessed here in the US, we have never known what it is like to have our country split apart by a war and have "enemies" keeping our country split apart for many years. We didn't have to risk our lives to go from a communist country to freedom. When our Civil War ended, we never made up. North and South became one country again but we were never brought together like father and daughter...
After the ceremony, I decided to join the celebration on the West side of the Brandenburger Tor. I saw the Kennedy Museum and saw this picture...
The caption on the TV screen inside (for those of us who don't speak German very well) said "President Barack Obama, following the path of the Kennedys... This inspired me as well as gave me fear. I realize (as a 40-something Gen X'er) that the Kennedys gave much hope and did many good things for our country in terms of things like science and Civil Rights... I also realize the path that JFK took to Arlington National Cemetery... That scares me to death...
Please tell me this is in praise and not fortune telling...