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The rusting and fall of the Iron Curtain

‘YOU KNOW what’s been going on in Berlin,’’ my father said to me. It was a night in the summer of 1961. I was an ROTC-obsessed student at Georgetown University. Dad was a general on the Air Staff at the Pentagon, where he had worked late. Full Article at Boston Globe

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