Browsing through a website’s blogroll, I randomly starting clicking on weblogs opening up a dozen or so tabs in Firefox, my browser. I came across a story that caught my eye and wanted to bring some small amount of attention to it here at voices.in.my.head. I don’t think there’s anything anyone can do to change the outcome that seems so eminent, but here’s the link and excerpt:

“While Americans Celebrate Freedom: Berlin to Bulldoze History” — As Americans set off fireworks to celebrate independence and freedom tonight, a different scene will play out half-way around the world in Berlin. There, at the site of Checkpoint Charlie, where Americans stood guard for so many decades and confronted Communist tyranny, workers with heavy equipment and machinery will descend to tear down over 1,000 crosses, each individually dedicated to those murdered attempting to escape Communist dictatorship for freedom.

Winston Churchill once said, “History with its flickering lamp stumbles along the trail of the past, trying to reconstruct its scenes, to revive its echoes, and kindle with pale gleams the passion of former days.” If Checkpoint Charlie goes down without a gallant fight, who will remember the screams of terror, the danger and relentless tension, the sleepless days and endless billowing nights that were the scene of Checkpoint Charlie. Long gone and forgotten were the days of the Cold War to most Gen. Xers. The children of the present seem to care little about such things. Thank God for the few of us who are burdened with the past, present and future and who ache in our souls when such memorials and altars are so quickly abandoned.