For myself, visiting the Berlin Wall while Germany was divided, and looking at the armed guards at various posts along the wall gave me a sense of fear and insecurity. My childhood was filled with rhetoric about nuclear war, "US vs USSR", WW III, and the like. The fear of a post apocolyptic society as seen in "Mad Max" wasn't that far fetched.
Ten years later I would see the wall crumbling down and with it any lingering fear of riding the desert in a dune buggy looking for food disappeared. I regained hope in mankind, and I regained confidence in my belief that peace isn't the result of war.
What is one of your life changing experiences?
2006-06-28
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