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)
Berlin Wall Torn Down. The official opening of the border with West Berlin occurred in a strange, confused way -- not much of a hammer blow at all. On Nov. 9, 1989, an East German official announced that East Germans would be allowed permanent departure or travel abroad.They could get passports or exit visas freely.hat followed was a two-day long party in the streets of Berlin. People began taking hammers and chisels to the wall, tearing it down piece by piece (and saving many pieces for souvenirs -- you can still buy them in German gift shops). Thousands of hammer blows finally destroyed the wall.