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Pop singer Prince was off by 10 years. Today the Germans are going to party like it's 1989.

Included in the festivities will be the German rock band "the Scorpions."

Their song "Wind of Change" was specifically dedicated to the fall of the Berlin Wall.

"The world is closing in...but did you ever think...that we could be so close...like brothers."

In a world where much has gone mad and wrong, today is a celebration of everything that is decent and right with this world.

Ronald Reagan told Mr. Gorbachev to "Tear down this wall."

For those who need to be reminded of what can happen when true greatness dares to dream, read President Reagan's entire remarks.

http://www.historyplace.com/speeches/reagan-tear-down.htm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjWDrTXMgF8

Twenty years ago today, the Berlin Wall came down.

Within months, millions of people that had been living in captivity were given the God given gifts of freedom and liberty.

Some have said that without love, there is no life.

Perhaps. Yet without liberty, there is nothing at all.

While we rightly celebrate Ronald Reagan's greatness, the best way we can honor his memory is by continuing what he started.

Some will say that George W. Bush was evil. Others will say he was well intentioned but wrong.

I will loudly stand up and say that he was right.

He is right because liberty is right. It is right morally, politically, and strategically.

Strategically we know that free nations do not attack each other. Nations basking in liberty do not bomb each other or kill innocent civilians. Never in history has any true democracy ever attacked another one.

Politically we know that leaders who free people from slavery and bondage are treated as heroes. Moses led the Jews out of Egypt. Nelson Mandela ended Apartheid in South Africa. Abraham Lincoln gave the Emancipation Proclamation. Ronald Reagan gave real hope to Eastern Europe. George W. Bush liberated two nations in the Middle East.

It was not just flowery rhetoric, since neither Moses nor George W. Bush possessed the eloquence of Lincoln or Reagan. It was noble deeds by men with noble hearts.

They did not need polls or focus groups to tell them what people in every corner of the world know.

Every human being is a creature of God. No human was meant to own another human.

We were meant to have dignity, which can only come with freedom and liberty.

It is worth dying for. Ask the survivors of Germans killed trying to cross over the wall.

Twenty years after the fall of the wall, we are at a critical moment in history.

Will we as Americans continue to fight for liberty, or will we give up?

Will we "bear any burden, pay any price?"

Are we up to the challenge?

We have to be.

Millions of people world wide are standing up.

We are at our best when we stand with them. Yet we have not always stood up.

We stood down when Tienamen Square happened. We stood down when the Kurds needed us. We initially stood down when we allowed blacks to be seen as three fifths of a human being.

Yet most of the time, we get it right. It just takes leadership that believes in liberty. Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves. Ronald Reagan won the Cold War. George W. Bush will one day get credit for bringing liberty to the Middle East.

Iranians are standing up. They want to be free of the Mullahs. Will we stand up?

Iraqis are waving their purple stained fingers. Will we stand up?

Afghanis hate the Taliban. They want to be free. Will we stand up?

We stood up against slavery, Communism, and Nazism. Islamofacism is not insurmountable. It will be tough, but as Ronald Reagan reminded us in his inaugural address, we are up to the challenge. He summed it up in three words.

"We are Americans."

The road ahead to spread liberty will not be easy. Yet being American is not about doing what is easy. It is about standing tall and doing what is right.

Liberty is right.

Tyranny kills. Liberty breathes life into people.

Liberty gives people their humanity. It is every bit as vital to the human as blood, water, and plasma.

Twenty years ago Europe saw the beauty of liberty.

Middle Easterners are human beings loved by God. They deserve liberty as well.

Twenty years from now, they will love us the same way that Eastern Europeans and most Americans love and admire Ronald Reagan.

L'chaim to liberty. L'chaim to life.

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