The Day the Wall Came Down of Berlin. Each sculpture weighs approximately seven tons and measures 30 feet long by 18 feet wide by 12 feet high. The Day the Wall Came Down The Day the Wall Came Down are two sculptures by Veryl Goodnight honoring the spontaneous end of the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989. It depicts five horses leaping over actual pieces of the broken wall. There are two copies of the sculpture. One, sculpted in 1997, is exhibited on the grounds of the George H. W. Bush Presidential Library in College Station, Texas. The second, finished in 1998, was given as a
Berlin Wall Monument (Chicago) long, bitter conflict. The monument also contains a plaque describing the dedication and reasoning behind why the wall fragment was donated. The inscription reads: The inscription contains affirmations of acceptance from many representative individuals and businesses of both Chicago and Germany at the time including Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley, Mayor of Berlin Klaus Wowereit, German Consul General Wolfgang Droutz, Lufthansa, and the Chicago Transit Authority. Berlin Wall Monument (Chicago) The Berlin Wall Monument in Chicago is an exhibit on display at the Western Brown Line CTA station. The monument contains a large segment of the Berlin Wall and a