Most of us remember the 1963 March on Washington for one thing only—Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech. If you’re like me, you went to school assemblies about this as a kid. You heard the speech, or at least some of the famous lines from it, about King’s dream for America. You […]
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Ich Bin Ein Berliner and West Berlin
I hadn’t realized the coincidence until now, but June 26 is the anniversary of two extremely important Cold War events involving the German city of Berlin. In 1963, United States president John F. Kennedy told the people of West Berlin “Ich bin ein Berliner.” In English, he said, “I am also a citizen of Berlin.” […]