Comments on: When We Hit the Wall http://gannonbeck.com/2007/11/09/when-we-hit-the-wall/ Mental, Physical and Character Fitness + Some Cool Drawings Fri, 25 Jul 2008 15:57:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.2 By: Deanne Broad http://gannonbeck.com/2007/11/09/when-we-hit-the-wall/#comment-160 Deanne Broad Sat, 10 Nov 2007 02:44:01 +0000 http://gannonbeck.com/2007/11/09/when-we-hit-the-wall/#comment-160 Me and my family were standing on it when the first swing of the Pick Ax hit the wall and the man who did it handed my brother the VERY First piece that was taken off from the top. The location we were at was right in front of the BrandenBerg Gate. We also were interviewed by Dan Rather, he was asking us what it felt like to up there with all of those people and if we thought what was happening was a good thing or a bad thing. Of course we all said that it was a GREAT thing. No one should be locked up and never able to leave. I have a lot of memories from that night and many others from Berlin and seeing this web site brought back a lot of those memories. Thank you for putting the web site out there for us to see. I too have a lot of peices of the wall, but over the years I have given a lot of them away. We collected a mop bucket full! :) Anyway, thanks again for the trip down memory lane! Me and my family were standing on it when the first swing of the Pick Ax hit the wall and the man who did it handed my brother the VERY First piece that was taken off from the top. The location we were at was right in front of the BrandenBerg Gate. We also were interviewed by Dan Rather, he was asking us what it felt like to up there with all of those people and if we thought what was happening was a good thing or a bad thing. Of course we all said that it was a GREAT thing. No one should be locked up and never able to leave. I have a lot of memories from that night and many others from Berlin and seeing this web site brought back a lot of those memories. Thank you for putting the web site out there for us to see.
I too have a lot of peices of the wall, but over the years I have given a lot of them away. We collected a mop bucket full! :) Anyway, thanks again for the trip down memory lane!

]]> By: Gannon Beck http://gannonbeck.com/2007/11/09/when-we-hit-the-wall/#comment-164 Gannon Beck Sun, 11 Nov 2007 01:17:51 +0000 http://gannonbeck.com/2007/11/09/when-we-hit-the-wall/#comment-164 Deanne, It was quite a time. I remember seeing Dan Rather too. I think some of my friends got to talk to Peter Jennings the next day as well. The week after, we went around with pick ax and chunked off a good portion of the wall. I remember how everyone was taken aback by how things changed over such a short span of time. Gannon Deanne,

It was quite a time. I remember seeing Dan Rather too. I think some of my friends got to talk to Peter Jennings the next day as well. The week after, we went around with pick ax and chunked off a good portion of the wall. I remember how everyone was taken aback by how things changed over such a short span of time.

Gannon

]]> By: LtCol Shusko USMC (Ret) http://gannonbeck.com/2007/11/09/when-we-hit-the-wall/#comment-229 LtCol Shusko USMC (Ret) Tue, 04 Dec 2007 14:47:40 +0000 http://gannonbeck.com/2007/11/09/when-we-hit-the-wall/#comment-229 Gannon, Another great read. I also enjoyed seeing some of your new art work - definitely first class. Hope all is well. We need to connect soon. Semper Fi Life is not a dress rehearsal, live it to the fullest. . .you're only given it once! Gannon,
Another great read. I also enjoyed seeing some of your new art work - definitely first class. Hope all is well. We need to connect soon.
Semper Fi
Life is not a dress rehearsal, live it to the fullest. . .you’re only given it once!

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