Ich bin ein Berliner!

I forgot to say that yesterday was the anniverasry of Jack Kennedy's famous speech from the balcony of Rathaus Schöneberg in Berlin, when he said,
"Two thousand years ago the proudest boast was civis Romanus sum. Today, in the world of freedom, the proudest boast is 'Ich bin ein Berliner'... All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin, and, therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words 'Ich bin ein Berliner!'"

Who would have thought that a quarter of a century later, The Wall would have fallen, and that we'd have the privilege of living in a United Europe, where never the spectre of war will haunt us?

I echo JFK's words in saying, "Civis Europaeus sum".