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Submitted by georgejmyersjr on Wed, 2008-07-16 17:31. I saw a report from there the new US Embassy is right nearby and set back from the public to protect it. Michael Reagan, former President Reagan's adopted son, was also asking if someone would put up a monument there where his father asked Mikhail Gorbachev, to "tear down this wall" the Berlin Wall, which came down later either on the tide of sentiment read there or inspired by other events? Mr. Gorbachev is getting a Philadelphia "Liberty Award" I read this year. They last met in 1988 on Governors Island in New York City's harbor, offered back to NYC for $1 by former President Clinton. It was finally signed over by the current President Bush (for an undisclosed amount, some of the Congress wanted $1/2 billion for it. Probably a small fee.) I worked in geoarchaeology there when it was empty. There's a monument to the "freedom of the press" in the form of a swivel gun for John Peter Zenger, who arrived there from the German Palatine at the age of 10. Plans for D-Day were said to have been kept there.