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)
Erected in the dead of night on August 13, 1961, the Berlin Wall (known as Berliner Mauer in German) was a physical division between West Berlin and East Germany in order to keep East Germans from feeling to the West. When the Berlin Wall fell on November 9, 1989, its destruction was nearly as instantaneous as its creation. For 28 years, the Berlin Wall had been a symbol of the Cold War and thus when it fell it was celebrated around the world.