Mr. Speaker. I want to call the attention of my distinguished colleagues. and indeed. of the whole country. to a very important anniversary. Monday. August 13 is the anniversary of the Berlin Wall. It was 23 years ago that the Communists chose to cut a living city in half by soldiers and barbed wire to block the exodus of over 2.000 refugees per day from East Berlin. Within weeks. a grim. ugly concrete wall was slammed into place. It stands today as an affront to basic human freedom. For more than two decades. Berlin. where our soldiers died 40 years ago in the name of liberty. has been tormented and torn by the defiant wall.
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