COLUMBIA — When the Berlin Wall began to come down, 85-year-old Ruth Atakerson was cleaning house. "I remember hearing it on the radio at home, and I was doing housework," she said.
Cleaning, overseas or home with the children: Columbians remember where they were when the wall came down
Monday, November 9, 2009 | 12:01 a.m. CST;
updated 11:22 a.m. CST, Monday, November 9, 2009
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