seems like the Germans don't want to remember anything that makes us look good... so be it... we still allow traitors like John Kerry and Ted Kennedy to breathe free air... shame on us...

As I understood it, the memorial is on private property - and the leaseholder has decided not to renew the lease.

This make me very, very . . . very sad.

My mother and I were born in Berlin. Both of my fathers were soldiers with the Berlin Brigade.

Checkpoint Charlie was a symbol that only those of us who grew up in a military family in the 1960s really completely understood. For our family it was a household name, like Sad Sack and Beetle Bailey; but, more importantly, it was a constant reminder to us that freedom was tenuous and that, were it not for those brave soldiers that manned it, we might also find ourselves on the red side of the Iron Curtain.

In my mind, Checkpoint Charlie will forever be a place of reverence - and destroying the monument will never, never destroy the memory and the reminder it evokes.

Someone in Germany has fogotten! Shame on them.

Greyhawk,

Germany isn't bulldozing a 'monument' to the victims, it's a privately organized art exhibit located on privately owned land. The lease ran out, and the bank that owns the land reclaimed it by going to the courts when the organizers of the exhibit refused to clear it off by themselves. The duration of the exhibit was limited from the start.

Greyhawk,

Germany isn't bulldozing a 'monument' to the victims, it's a privately organized art exhibit located on privately owned land. The lease ran out, and the bank that owns the land reclaimed it by going to the courts when the organizers of the exhibit refused to clear it off by themselves. The duration of the exhibit was limited from the start.

Sorry about the double post

I think that you forget that germans have lose the War.
For them USA like USSR was an ennemy.
After the war most of Germans prefers the west than the East, because they were afraid of communist and Russains, but now there is no communist threat.