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)
During his famous speech at the Brandenburg Gate, President Reagan challenged Gorbachev to tear down this wall!. Five months after the end of his term, the Berlin Wall fell, and on December 26, 1991, nearly three years after he left office, the Soviet Union collapsed.