Twenty years ago today President Reagan demanded:"
Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!
Tomorrow President Bush will help dedicate the Victims of Communism memorial:
Two months after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, conservative historian Lee Edwards began worrying that the world might forget the millions who suffered and died under communist regimes.[. . .]
When his wife suggested building a memorial in Washington, he immediately scribbled the idea down on a napkin. Two days later, Mr. Edwards began to pursue a goal that would take 17 years, a bipartisan congressional bill and nearly $1 million to accomplish.
The memorial, called the "Goddess of Democracy," is a bronze replica of the figure erected by Chinese students during the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989 and destroyed by Chinese tanks. The students modeled it after the Statue of Liberty.
The memorial stands at the intersection of Massachusetts and New Jersey avenues in Northwest.
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