![]() ![]() We hurried back to West Berlin as my two younger brothers were still in the city in the care of a babysitter. ![]() ![]() I remember vividly the trek thru the Eastern Germany and the Checkpoint like a Hitchcock movie. I was actually in Sweden visiting relatives with my parents the day the wall went up on August 13, 1961. Indeed, I was in East Berlin on a "tour" with my sister and a Swedish cousin who was visiting, one week before the wall went up. I remember all the circumstances described in the book. My father was the commanding officer of AFN Berlin, the American Forces Network radio station at the time. I must have sensed the anxiety because I remember vividly asking my father on a regular basis "If we went to war with the Russians, who would win?" I remember the question. I was horrified to learn how close we came, those of us living in West Berlin and going about our daily lives, to being vaporized by the Russians. I was living in Berlin as an American military dependent during the time period that this book examines. ![]()
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