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A Hair Trigger From World War III

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...

I Was At Checkpoint Charlie

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

Preventing World War III

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

Waiting For Russia To Attack

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

Berlin: The Happiest Place on Earth

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...

Growing Up In The Cold War

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...

"He Only Wanted Freedom" — Berlin Wall Memorial

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...

An American Doctor Behind The Iron Curtain

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...

Crying For Those Lost

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

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