[davius]

My daughter is 28. When the wall came down, I called her in to watch it on TV. It didn’t strike me that she was sufficiently impressed. I popped Beethoven’s Symphony no. 9 in D minor into the stereo and played the fourth movement,’Ode To Joy’ at full volume. The windows of the house rattled. To this day, she remembers.

[EDINVA]

Hopefully your daughter understands WHY you were so excited, why the wall's coming down was so earth-shakingly significant. I recently had an exchange with a 28 y/o cum laude Ivy grad who, referring to an anti-communist comment I'd made said to his contemporary , "Oh, but she lived through the McCarthy era." Somewhat stunned, I said, "oh, noooo. I lived through the era when the communists would machine gun down anyone trying to escape from East Berlin to West Berlin..." and went on from there. They never hear about that.