by CARL A. BENNER, VMI ‘60 My name is Carl A. Benner and I was at Checkpoint Charlie during the standoff with the Russian T54 tanks in...

by MICHAEL F. RAFFERTY On November 9th 1989 I was relaxing in my home watching the Armed Forces Network, when it announced that East...

by AMB. STEPHEN BARRETT I was Deputy Political Adviser in the British Military Government Berlin from 1959 to 1962. In August 1961 I was...

by WALT MICKLER “Es lebe Freiheit!.” Those were the thoughts of most West Berliners in 1961. When asked by an American soldier what the...

by LINDA NOLTEN In June 1962, my West German husband to be (he a recent graduate from the Universität München’s Medical School) and I (a...

by DANIEL REVAS I arrived in West Berlin as a somewhat naive 17 year old soldier fresh off the plane from Nebraska. In many ways I “grew...

by CHARLES RAGER I was drafted into the Army in December of 1961. I arrived in Berlin Germany in June of 61. I was assigned to the...

by AMMIEL SCHWARTZ I was posted to US Army Hosp Frankfurt July 1956. After I had been there for six months, I was asked if I would like...

by CODY K. CARLSON In the summer of 2005, I was an undergraduate student attending the Freie Universität Berlin international summer...