January 12, 2003
Now those were good friends
The History Channel is a serious threat to my overall time management strategy: there's simply too much good, tempting TV there. I almost long for "the days when TV sucked" so that I can re-balance my studies toward more reading.
One of those History Channel shows, "The Cold War: Secret Passage", just finished airing. There were some excellent segments, including the one on the Viet Cong tunnels - lessons from them are being taught now at West Point - but the one that really got me was the story of a group of Berlin university students, represented in the segment by Dominic Ceska ("We were bloody amateurs"), who patiently dug a tunnel 100 meters by hand - they actually filmed some of it! - under the wall from (I found this by Googling) under a house at 60 Westerstrasse on the free side of the wall.
They had intended to free their trapped friend and his family. They did that, but also freed more: 29 in all.
Posted by Russell Whitaker at January 12, 2003 11:57 AM | TrackBack