Staunton Star - Times - Published in the Interest of the Staunton Community for Over 143 Years

Thursday, July 12, 1990 -- AT BERLIN WALL -- Specialist Kelly Pieper, son of Dean and Evelyn Pieper of Staunton. attended the historic New Year's eve celebration of the tearing down of the Berlin Wall and the reuniting of East and West Berlin.

Kelly is stationed in Berlin at Andrew's Compound, a former barracks for Hitler's SS troops which is also a few minutes away from such sites as the Berlin Wall, Freedom Bridge, Brandenburg Gate, Russian War Memorial, Check Point Charlie, theVictory Tower, and Berlin's main thoroughfare – the Kurfurstendamm. In the heart of the Kurfurstendamm, stand...