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August 15, 2004
Berlin closing airlift airport
I didn't even know that Tempelhof was still alive and kicking to be honest. I'm divided on the conservation effort. My personal belief is the only good thing about yesterday is that it's over. So the notion of maintaining an artifact of a war that has long since past is just strange and alien. I don't mind them putting up a monument to it. We have them all over the place here in America, on this site in whenever, the following historic event took place. That's more than enough for me. I mean something like Tempelhof has been in news reels since the time it was built, so it's not like we don't have an archive of information built up about it. The physical buildings are irrelevant to what they represent and the role they played in history. Close it up, tear it down, and move on.
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Posted by ManDrake at August 15, 2004 8:19 AM
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