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BERLIN | Where pieces of the Berlin Wall remain.

Here is a thread about cities of the world where pieces of the Berlin Walls exist.
I start. Everyone is welcome to continue...
In my home town, we have this piece, located in the atrium of the Centre de Commerce Mondial (World Trade Center) :

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there's one at the George Bush (the older, smarter one) Presidential Library in College Station, Texas. i'll put up my pics later.

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There's also one in the Freedom Park in Arlington VA.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_Park
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Here's the pic from Wikipedia showing the four pieces from Freedom Park in Arlington, Virginia :



IMO, they should find a better place to exhibit them.
Second the one at George Bush Presidential Library in Texas :


source : American Forces Press Service.

What a scenery !! Awesome !!
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I have a small piece of the Berlin Wall. Most of it was sold.
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Old Posted Nov 29, 2007, 8:20 AM
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Back in 1989 I was in BLN when the wall got turned down , I chopped a piece of it which I brought home, you smell what happened back then...
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I have two small pieces of it in my room.
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there's a piece in the JFK museum at UMass Boston, and there is also a piece outside a foreign language learning company(i think) in Cambridge, Mass, i think it is the EF foundation?
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Richard Nixon Library

This piece is in the Richard Nixon Library in Yorba Linda, CA.

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Here's the pic from Wikipedia showing the four pieces from Freedom Park in Arlington, Virginia :



IMO, they should find a better place to exhibit them.
Second the one at George Bush Presidential Library in Texas :


source : American Forces Press Service.

What a scenery !! Awesome !!
that's the Reagan library i'm thinking; George Bush library doesn't have such nice scenery.

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I have a piece of it in my living room, back from 1989.
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Old Posted Dec 8, 2007, 3:55 AM
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here's the one in the Bush library



interpretive sculpture outside



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