Today is not #throwbackthursday but this is my most memorable throwback.
On November 9, 1989, the Berlin Wall started to be torn down. It is sometimes called Fall of the Wall Day. The tearing down of the Wall was one of the most momentous days in human history. Those who didn’t live through the Cold War can’t imagine the emotional impact it had on those of us who did.
https://thetacticalprofessor.net/2023/11/09/fall-of-the-wall-day/
I still remember the day clearly. It will be ingrained in my memory even when I’m as senile as Moron Joe. That day meant soldiers like me didn’t have to wonder about dying in the Fulda Gap Memories of the Fulda Gap or undertaking one-way missions into Soviet occupied territory. It was stupendous.
tacticalprofessor 
I was born in 1952, so I remember very well, just as you do, the fears we had about Thermonuclear war and war with the Russians. I was in the army in Germany in a combat arms unit 1975–79 so I had the Fulda gap on my mind every day although my unit was tasked with air defense around a very large depot and wasn’t going to be maneuvering to the east. I also shared intense relief when the Berlin wall came down, since it was such a giant symbol of the decades of the Cold War that we had lived through. Those were heady times filled with strong emotions for a boy who started watching the news in the middle 50s and lived through all those events.