The very idea of this wall gives me vicarious, historical PTSD. Such a horrible thing, as all walls intended to separate human beings are horrible.
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I agree, walls do not benefit mankind generally & we should work for a world without them. But walls to keep out threats & protect legal boundaries (while ethically patrolling them) are a legitimate & fair means of securing a sovereign nation. Not all walls are morally equivalent
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From the big-picture "we're all made of the same stuff" perspective, I'm theoretically against all walls. We build them to "keep out threats" while most of our citizens are hurt or killed by people within. They are an illusion & a panacea for those who live in fear of other.
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“Secure the blessing of liberty, to ourselves & our posterity...” is the primary purpose of government. We fail there & must improve: education, health insurance, social services. We can! When people feel insecure from threat, which many Americans do, they shld be helped 1st tho.
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When threats are exaggerated and fomented based on disinformation, bigotry, xenophobia & generalized racism, people who reject critical thinking feel threatened. Walls are not the answer. Education & the stoking of empathy are.
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Visited the wall in the 70's. When traveling through the subway, the stops in East Berlin are literally blocked off with police guards carrying rifles to prevent anyone getting off the unterstrassen. Very scary.
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And the wall grew, not only in length but in depth: mine fields, guard towers, dogs, more wall. Purpose: To keep people IN. I’ll never forget my shock on first seeing it when we lived in West Berlin in the 70s. We could visit the other side. They couldn’t.
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57 year itch America?
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What a shock that must have been.
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Invisible lines made on maps and globes dictating human behavior. Damn Shame
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That’s pretty much been the history of the entire world. Territories and border lines establishing an areas identity. It’s not like it’s some postmodern ideal..
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i'm in my early-mid 30s. so nuts that this happened within my parents' lifetime.
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I never forget the day it went down. I was a junior in HS
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And it’s now been gone longer than it was up.

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We watched the events unfold on German TV, after having recently visited my uncle who was posted in Berlin. We drove from my father’s posting at Coleman Kaserne, where we lived a short distance from a key geographical feature known as the Fulda Gap.
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I remember this being in the news. I was just shy of 10.
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