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Students Experience Legacy of Friendship Left by Berlin Airlift
When sixth-graders from the Holy Trinity School Georgetown went to the Newseum in Washington, DC, to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Berlin Airlift, they had not even stepped foot inside the museum when they encountered living history. A gentlemen saw the group of young people outside wearing t-shirts with the "Friends Always" slogan of the anniversary. He stopped them and told them that his mother's life had been saved in 1948-49 by the airlift that brought food supplies to the western part of Berlin during the Soviet blockade.
The students had been learning about the Berlin Airlift and life in Berlin after World War II in class and took the field trip to the newly opened Newseum to visit the Berlin Gallery, where they saw pieces of the Berlin Wall and an East German border watchtower. "The kids where impressed to see how high the wall and the observation towers were and how threatening the organization behind it," said Christina Sante, who accompanied the class to the Newseum. "On the other hand, they where amused to see how creative people were to protest against the wall with their graffiti." May 5, 2008 Links
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