The Washington Post, November 11th, 1990
"And here, ladies and gentlemen," said the tour guide, "just here along next to the Reichstag, you must imagine the Wall." A silence in the bus as everybody tried. Eight of the nine travelers in this American group had memories to draw on, but I, the ninth, had never laid eyes on divided Berlin. Now, a year after its broaching, the Wall in the area around the Brandenburg Gate is gone without a trace. Except for the emotion on the faces of my friends, I might as well have been straining to imagine the past at Verdun or Gallipoli. History and memory are often invoked in the same breath, as twins...
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