Share:
House Co-Sponsorship Memoranda
House of Representatives
Session of 2013 - 2014
Regular Session
MEMORANDUM
| Posted: | August 1, 2014 02:13 PM |
|---|---|
| From: | Representative Carl Walker Metzgar |
| To: | All House members |
| Subject: | Resolution to Commemorate the 25th Anniversary of The Fall of the Berlin Wall |
| In the near future, I will introduce a resolution to commemorate the 25th Anniversary of The Fall of the Berlin Wall. In August of 1961, members of the former German Democratic Republic, with approval and assistance from the former The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), constructed what was to become famously known as the Berlin Wall. The 103-mile Wall, including a 28-mile segment through the city of Berlin, physically and symbolically, divided the German population into two nations. For nearly the next three decades, this division separated family, friends, and neighbors of East and West Germany. Twenty-eight years of history culminated on the evening of November 9, 1989. That evening, thousands of German citizens, from both the East and West, dismantled the Berlin Wall. Not only did this historic event lead to eventual German unification, but it also symbolically marked the demise of the Soviet Union and its communist influence. Less than a year later, on November 3, 1990, the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic united to form a single German nation for the first time in more than forty-five years. Please join me in cosponsoring this resolution to honor the 25th Anniversary of The Fall of Berlin Wall. Thank you for your consideration. |
Introduced as HR958