Seven or eight years ago I spent July 4th wandering around Tiananmen Square and then walking through the Forbidding City.
Lots of guards. Lots of folks flying kites. Mostly tourists like me. Still, overall, it was pretty empty. I wondered if many locals just don't go there.
It was a very emotional experience having watched the uprising via television.
Same here. I was a junior in college when I watched this go down. I remember the Chinese grad students in a frenzy trying to pass information back to their friends in China as the news there had been blocked out...
I never would have guessed fifteen years later I'd be there.
It's probably a good thing that DW wouldn't let me bring along a line of toy tanks to re-create the scene...
-Blast
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