Preparedness Notes for Sunday — August 15, 2021
On August 15, 1961, two days after sealing off free passage between East and West Berlin with barbed wire, East German authorities began building a wall–the Berlin Wall–to permanently close off access to the West. For the next 28 years, the heavily fortified Berlin Wall stood as the most tangible symbol of the Cold War–a literal “iron curtain” dividing Europe. The wall has now been torn down for longer than it stood, but the scars in memory are still there. — Auction ends tonight! Through a friend with an FFL, I’m auctioning a stainless steel Seecamp LWS .380 ACP made …