Brandenburg Gates

 Well the Germans are having an election today old Merkel is after getting in again well iv been down memory lane looking at those Brandenburg Gates on the TV I was stationed there during the cold war days for a time and some of us use to go down there and give the East German Boarder Gaurds some grief,you could look from a distance at them their side looking at us this side,well afew of us,well about eight of us dropped our kegs and gave them a moon once then scarped quick  before the police or M.p.s turned  up and spoilt our fun  we use to do Gaurds some times on check point Charlie to,they had a viewing platform next to the wall back  then and that's where we use to mingle with the locals and give finger over the wall  oh they were the days    Oh and good luck Murkel hope you get in again Mrs

That's what's needed!!!

Walls akin to the Berlin wall built in countries that are divided by violence    

I was watching a program not long ago which depicted the old spandu prison that once stood housing old Rudolf Hess,you know Adolfs old mate who parachuted into Scotland during the war,that was an other trip down that long winding lane again cos I did quite afew  stints up in those towers as well,all of them  at   one time or another,and on the front door,he use to look up at us when he came into the garden,yes he  had a garden in there,not a pretty one with flowers etc,just a plane one with a path which we used as well when changing guards,there were stories of the haunted tower and and other things etc,and rats as big as cats right big buggers I can  tell yer,the opps room use to use the intercom to bug you with these stories and ask if you were wet and like a cuppa when it was pouring down with rain knowing how you could not take shelter,not allowed inside that little square room  you walked around the outside of,so you took it out on the locals,see there were these blocks of flats on one side and we had a little search light,and well you guest it,i was a dab hand at upsetting those residents with that light early  hours of the morning   its prob not there any more,it was said they intended to demolish that old prison when  he snuft it,and well he did snuff it so its now prob gone same as him.

Just as well, it wouldn't have been a proud or nice historic landmark to keep if Hess had used it 

 well they say the Nazi's used the prison to house their own who they called Traitors before execution,between tower 2 and 3 there were a long one story building and you could see that there still were three ovens with runners  going up to them,dont know the facts but I take it that it must have been were they disposed of things maybe even Human

Evil!! 

 Yes evil,i agree,but its all gone now thank God,so are most of those that commited these crimes,the cabin that was used which we called checkpoint Charlie which is now a  famous cabin known world wide  is now in a Musium  for all to see,the place were it once stood is now an open road,the then killing ground that was between them and us is now used to take tourists on trips around were the wall once stood

I wouldn't like that....a trip around a place like that even if the building has gone 

I was on about the open space between the East and the west L.G. That is now used as a Tourist attraction from what iv heard not were the prison once stood,it was an area of open ground that people had to try and get across then try and   get over the wall to freedom,some did some did not,thats why it was called the killing ground:cl2:

Still a bit ghoulish to me, I can understand ex prisoner of war and their families visiting old nazi camps, it was a major part of their lives, a horrific one....I don't know, for me I would be able to visualise the scenes and it would haunt me for a long time.

Its now all just History L.G.but like every thing that is confined to History that those of the today say we will draw lessons from,we never do  do we History has a knack of keeping repeating its self,and so we wait for WW 111 and when that is finished and dusted number four will not be far behind that is what the Human race has learnt from the past nothing else

All the time power and control freaks are around and weapons too there will always be wars 

All through mans History its been the same,and no doubt will in the end be his cause for extinction then this plannet if it still exists will reap the only just reward and Nature again prevails

Makes me wonder what kind of life would be born from naure, a whole new species of plants and animals to begin the cycle of evolution again...that's the true religion, Nature

 
That to is what I believe L.G. Nature and all its wonders can never be any thing other than the true way and only way