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Time flies when you are having fun. Is hard to believe that it was exactly 15 years ago since the fall of the Wall.
To celebrate this momentuous occasion, Izzie has snatched a snippet from her favorite artist and poet- Michael Leunig
The Wall
The Great Dividing Wall came down
But it hasn't gone away;
It lies flat on the surface now
To keep what's underneath at bay;
And what's beneath our surface
Has become 'the other side'
More dreadful than the communists
Across the old divide
Yes, the Wall's been repositioned
And it's thick and strong and flat;
To keep us from the awful things
Swept underneath the mat.
Well. Turns out that 9th November is a most inauspicious and embarassing date in German history where lots of very nasty things happened (Reichskristalnacht and the Nazi Munich Putsch to name a few). So they had to move the celebrations to a more politically correct date which ended up being 3rd October.
To celebrate this momentuous occasion, Izzie has snatched a snippet from her favorite artist and poet- Michael Leunig
The Wall
The Great Dividing Wall came down
But it hasn't gone away;
It lies flat on the surface now
To keep what's underneath at bay;
And what's beneath our surface
Has become 'the other side'
More dreadful than the communists
Across the old divide
Yes, the Wall's been repositioned
And it's thick and strong and flat;
To keep us from the awful things
Swept underneath the mat.
Well. Turns out that 9th November is a most inauspicious and embarassing date in German history where lots of very nasty things happened (Reichskristalnacht and the Nazi Munich Putsch to name a few). So they had to move the celebrations to a more politically correct date which ended up being 3rd October.
