November 9, 2019 is the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall,or more accurately, the Berlin Walls ( see picture below). This Blogger was intending to bypass commentary on the anniversary, but a German friend of his emailed him, and stated that people who were living witness to the wall's existence  were dying; so it was important that all     eyewitness accounts be memorialized. This Blogger went into East Germany in 1988, for an appointment in Samarra. This Blogger flew into West Berlin from Amsterdam. The landing pattern was interesting; the plane circled West Berlin before it touched down, so the passengers could see that the mythic Berlin Wall was indeed a wall, a wall, around the ENTIRE CITY of West Berlin. This Blogger has seen walled cities before, Avila in Spain; but this medieval phenomenon in    the 20 th  century was a shock. There were two walls, one abutting West Berlin, and one abutting East Berlin; between them was a no man’s land, a cordon sanita