Forty Years Ago, This Summer

audsandens.blogspot.com     Apr 13, 2008   

Prague, August 6 or 7, 1968 (two weeks before the Russian tanks rolled in). I was, I saw, on the German border, but the wrong one… I had no visa for East Germany.There was a town near what was clearly the West German border: “Cheb,” I shouted to the man behind the little...