United States Information Agency and the Fall of the Berlin Wall The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 marked the symbolic end of the Cold War and a turning point in U.S. public diplomacy. For Generation X, who came of age in the shadow of nuclear anxiety, that moment...
Thanks to International Youth Service, I became pen pals with a girl from Germany in 1980. Let's Be Pen Pals: International Youth Service Did you have pen pals growing up? My old scrapbook is filled with Hallmark date books, cards, pictures, elementary school track...
The Fall of the Berlin Wall, the Oklahoma City Bombing and the Challenger Disaster are among the top 12 historic events for Generation X, according to a new survey conducted by the Pew Research Center in association with A+E Networks’ History. Here are the events in...
Tomorrow is the 25th anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall, one of the top 10 most defining moments for Generation X. Google has put together a "Google Doodle" to mark the occasion. The fall of the Berlin Wall was a defining moment for Generation X. The Christmas...
In the spring of 1993, thousands of people of all ages held hands and formed a circle around Tinker Air Force Base. They gathered outside the fence wearing T-shirts that said SAVE TINKER and waved flags and held signs. In just a few days they would discover Tinker's...
1985 USSR, originally uploaded by Roman on flickr. What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love." -- From Fyodor Dostoevsky and The Brothers Karamazov Fall of the Soviet Union I've been meaning to write about the 20th anniversary of the...
A new PBS film about the Berlin Wall, The Wall: A World Divided, has brought back memories of my German penpal. Read on to learn more. My Pen pal Helga Hosch In the 7th grade, nine years before unrestricted access between East and West Berlin was granted, Helga Hosch...
Naomi Kritzer has written a post about nuclear war from the Generation X childhood perspective. On September 26th, 1983, I was ten years old and living in Madison, Wisconsin. As a child, I actively feared nuclear war; it bordered on an anxiety disorder at time,...