It was 15 years ago today that President Ronald Reagan’s call to Gorbachev was met with the resounding approval of hammers hitting brick.

Margaret Thatcher contemplated years later that it was Ronald Reagan who ended the cold war with his stand against communism.

I recently read the book, “God and Ronald Reagan”, which chronicled the evident influence of Reagan’s faith in God. In the book, the author Paul Kengor writes about Reagan’s childhood hatred of the communistic regime, and his lifelong goal of ending it. With a direction that he attributes to God’s will, Reagan set forth policies in America that would eventually culminate in the disintegration of not only the brick walls that separated nations, but the social and moral walls that separated people.

Congratulations to the late President Reagan, thanks to Mr. Gorbachev, and Happy 15th birthday to the crumbled walls of Berlin.