Quote Originally Posted by owlice View Post
I was driving south on Route 29 in Maryland, from Columbia, when I heard that the Berlin Wall was being torn down. I had seen the wall -- had been in Berlin just the year before for the first of a series of concerts for peace -- and was thrilled to hear this news. I managed to stay on the road, but barely!
I totally missed that wholething. We were going through a busy time at work -- I was in Chicago at the time, new at a job where I was hired to help them start an office in NYC. I worked lots of overtime for a couple of weeks and saw very little news. Next thing I knew, we'd defeated communism.

A couple of years later, I came into work one morning and found out someone had killed a bunch of people on a Long Island Railroad train the night before. After that I got new radio so I could listen to the news while getting ready for work every morning.