Tales of a Desk Jockey

Brandenburg Gate — This photo depicts me (Marek Hanusch) standing on on the Berlin Wall in front of the Brandenburg Gate with two East German border patrol officers. I was seven years old at the time. My step father, Jacek, who took the picture was a political refugee from Poland and had lived with my mother, Rosi, and myself for five years before. I remember how excited both of them were at the time even though I did not fully grasp what was going on.I was very young but I remember that it was a strange feeling standing in between those foreign soldiers - and foreign they were back then. I wonder what they are doing now that we are Landsleute (fellow countrymen).  -Jacek Barski

From New York Times

Note that there is also graffiti on the Brandenburger Tor…