From: KeithB
Date: Tue Oct  4 15:31:47 MST 2005
Subject: Eisenach

Andrea, yesterday (10/3) was German Reunification Day...15 years ago yesterday, Julie and I were in Germany when it all happened -- we spent that day of German Reunification in a little former East German town named... EISENACH. Isn't that bizarre? Eisenach was behind the iron curtain during the Cold War, very close to the East/West border in Germany. That day in 1990 was the first day that the U.S. military allowed personnel to travel unfettered into former East Germany territory. So Julie and I decided to do just that, finding Eisenach to be one of the closest larger towns on the map. We went with no information, just going to see what we could find. We found a a very delapidated city of soot and potholes, but we also found a wonderful little festival celebrating reunification -- complete with the oompah band, folk dancing and bratwurst. We also toured the area and found a beautiful little estate turned into a tourist attraction, that was Martin Luther's home for several years (maybe when he wrote the 95 theses?). This is one of my fonder memories of our time in Germany -- it's very cool that we now have another connection to Eisenach.

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