Berlin remains Berlin. In the bleachers, Traudel Jannietz put her can of Crisco back in her bag, her mundane but comforting symbol of a great moment in history. That the people of Berlin will not be forgotten. As the planes came and went and came and went again, the airlift became a sharing of the soul. It was, Clinton said, a story that tells people never to give up, never to lose faith.
Freedom is worth standing up for.