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Show Opening of Berlin Wall is glorious event entrepreneurs take advantage of it and sell pieces of the wall for humongous prices all over the world. I am just glad to see it go. It is virtually a miracle and we lived to see it. This is real history in the making. I hope our young people see it for what it is and remember it always. Freedom is worth what ever it takes to get and to keep. As one Communist country after another seems to be forced in to giving up to Democracy, we must continue to hope that this is for sure and not just putting the U.S. off guard. Under Communism the incentive incen-tive to work, to be proud of accomplishment accom-plishment are gone. No wonder there are shortages of food, clothing, houses. Capitalism may not be perfect but it is better than most anything else around. At least it gives a worker incentive and that is just what we need to be successful. the rest of the world off guard by indicating that they want peace. When all the trends were going that way, then Communism could pounce on the free world. She listed the sources for this incident in her letter. I certainly hope that this is not the case. I don't think anyone in the free world trusts the Communists as far as you can throw them. However, there is one thing they are dealing with here and that is people who have once tasted freedom free-dom from oppression are not going to knuckle under again very easily. Besides, if all the people leave, who will the Communists have left to oppress? It would appear that the masses have spoken. It started out with just one country saying they wanted to have free elections. It started out with a trade union, Solidarity, in Poland standing up for its rights in spite of threats and coersion. It started out with people fleeing flee-ing over the Berlin Wall by every means available, even though they knew they could surely die in the process. It started out with people seeking seek-ing assylum in the U.S. and other free countries when they were allowed al-lowed out of their country for sports, diplomacy, the fine arts, etc. It would seem to me that those hel d without their freedom in those communistic countries would want to defect if they could just experience experi-ence for a short time what we have here in America. I am sure that those diplomats who are assigned to the embassies here in the United States from the communist countries coun-tries are delighted to be here and enjoy the fruits of freedom without having to defect. How terrible it must be to them . to have to return to their country when their term of office is over and they cannot buy any kind of grocery or clothing that they want without having to stand in long lines or wait years for an item. I must say that I am very glad to see that Berlin Wall come tumbling tum-bling down. I don't care how many By MARCELLA WALKER Our first child was born just a few days after the terrible Berlin Wall was erected back in August of 1961. I remember what a shock it was to the free world and how sad it was that a country would have to lock its people in to keep them from leaving. Now, like some miracle out of time, the wall is coming down. The other day I was talking to a woman who left Germany in 1949. She said she doesn't trust the Russians at all. She feels that they will force everyone to leave, or allow them to leave, and they will come in and take over the homes and belongings belong-ings that are left behind. She also said that this way the governments over there, which has been struggling economically anyway, any-way, would have less people to feed and take care of. We had heard early on that the first ones to leave East Germany, whether they went through Hungary Hun-gary or Czechoslovakia, were the brilliantmindsof East Germany. If that is true, what a treasure they have lost. Perhaps, if the country is allowed al-lowed to become free with a democracy, democ-racy, all these intellectuals will return to their homeland. But maybe they won't. A unified Germany would be wonderful. Is it too much to hope for? I read a letter to the editor the other day that was printed in the Manti Messenger. The writer said that back in about 1949 in a Communist Com-munist School in Moscow, those attending were told that sometime it might become necessary to put |
