Today is a very sad day for the people of Berlin. This evening the two last flights are going from TCA, and than it will be closed forever. A piece of history will be gone after 85 years. Not only German history.

With this airport a part of the free world will be carried to grave. A part which had much to do with our fight against communist terror. Our fight for freedom!

When in June 23. 1948 the Sovjets closed all borders to the western sectors and tried to starve the population of West Berlin to death, General Lucius D. Clay gave the order to start the Berlin Airlift.

The whole city was supplied with food and coal from air. Something never was tried before, something nearly everybody thought that it’s impossible. Every 90 seconds a plane was landing at TCA to help the citizens of Berlin. 2.34 Million tons of freight where brought in that way until May,1949 when the blockade ended. 31 American and 41 British Soldiers died, man who gave their lives for the citizens of Berlin. We’ll never forget them! Also we’ll never forget the surviving one’s, the pilots of the “Candy-Bombers”, so called because one pilot, Col. Gail Halvorsen started his own mission, “Operation Little Vittles”, where he and his friends where dropping tiny bundles of candys and gum attached on little parashutes to the kid’s by the airport. Our hearts and minds will be with them forever. By them former opponents became friends.

But we will also never forget who closed this airport! And under what kind of circumstances. We will not forget the champagne drinking and lobster eating socialist/communist politicians inside, which are making a big victory event out of the closure, while the Berliners stand outdoors and mourn.

Sources: Morgenpost, American Experience , Spiegel

Update: Only half of the invited guests appeared on Wowereits “Viktory Party”, and even from many of these selected guests he was jeered during his speech.