Domestic airports near Fort Leavenworth. 22 miles: Kansas City, MO (MCI / KMCI) Kansas City International Airport. 71 miles: Topeka, KS (FOE / KFOE) Forbes Field. 133 miles: Manhattan, KS (MHK / KMHK) Manhattan Regional Airport.nother major airport is Forbes Field (FOE / KFOE), which has domestic flights from Topeka, Kansas and is 71 miles from Fort Leavenworth.
An East German border policeman hands a flower to West Berliners on the 1989 weekend when the wall separating two parts of the city started to fall. Many people died while defying rules against crossing from East Berlin to West Berlin from 1961 to 1989. (Michael Probst/Reuters)
Email. The Berlin Wall came down 25 years ago today. Built in the middle of the night Aug. 13, 1961, the wall divided East and West Germany for 28 years to stop East Germans from leaving the Soviet Union-occupied country for the capitalist western state. SLIDESHOW: 'Tear Down This Wall!'. Over the years, what began as a simple fence turned into a concrete wall that separated the capital and became a focal point of the Cold War. On Nov. 9, 1989, the East German government announced its citizens could move west.