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Tonight's Topic: "(TorF): Ich bin ein Berliner!"
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    It's that time again -- 3 more True-or-False ("TorF") questions.
    On this date -- June 26, 1963 -- President John F. Kennedy (JFK) delivered one of his most eloquent speeches in West Berlin (during the Cold War Era).
    At this visit, nearly 2 years after the infamous Berlin Wall was first erected, President Kennedy spoke to hugh West German crowds.

In that speech, he expressed his solidarity with those in the besieged city by claiming: "Ich bin ein Berliner!" ("I am a Berliner!").

    Accordingly, how much more do you know about... this famous pronouncement by JFK?
    For tonight's True-or-False ("TorF") questions, please give us your best answers for each of the following 3 TRUE or FALSE questions, by using the (reuseable) answers of "A"=TRUE or "B"=FALSE.
   Good Luck and remember, YOU are always a WINNER with us, regardless of your actual answers!
    OK, lassen Sie uns gehen TorF-ing! (Let's get going TorF-ing!)

++ "(TorF): Ich bin ein Berliner!" ++
Question #1: Recently (in 2013), historians have discovered that one of JFK's speechwriters -- and not President Kennedy -- originally coined the phrase: "I am a Berliner" -- True or False?
A. True, or
B. False.

Question #2: Besides having the phrase translated into German, Kennedy also had the translator phonetically write out the phrase: "Ish bin ein Bearleener" -- which JFK proceeded to rehearse phonetically for several hours before giving his famous speech -- True or False?
A. True, or
B. False.

Question #3: Unfortunately, however, when Kennedy actually spoke "Ish bin ein Bearleener", JFK mistakenly called himself "a jelly doughnut"  -- True or False?
        A. True, or
        B. False.

Extracts from The Real Meaning of Ich Bin ein Berliner
    ... In West Berlin in 1963, President Kennedy delivered his most eloquent speech on the world stage.
    The director of the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum tells the evocative story behind JFK’s words.
    These words, delivered on June 26, 1963, against the geopolitical backdrop of the Berlin Wall, endure because of the pairing of the man and the moment.
    John F. Kennedy’s defiant defense of democracy and self-government stand out as a high point of his presidency.
    Kennedy’s speechwriters had worked hard preparing a text for his speech, to be delivered in front of city hall.
   [Q1]: JFK was disappointed in the draft he was given.
    So he fashioned a new speech on his own.
    Previously, Kennedy had said that in Roman times, no claim was grander than “I am a citizen of Rome.”
    For his Berlin speech, he had considered using the German equivalent, “I am a Berliner.”
    [Q2]: Moments before taking the stage, during a respite in West Berlin Mayor Willy Brandt’s office, JFK jotted down a few words in Latin and—with a translator’s help—the German version, written phonetically: Ish bin ein Bearleener.
    [Q3]: Afterward it would be suggested that Kennedy had got the translation wrong—that by using the article ein before the word Berliner, he had mistakenly called himself a jelly doughnut.
    In fact, Kennedy was correct.
    To state Ich bin Berliner would have suggested being born in Berlin, whereas adding the word ein implied being a Berliner in spirit.
    His audience understood that he meant to show his solidarity....
[SOURCE: The Real Meaning of Ich Bin ein Berliner]
Please see this excellent recap about Kennedy's Ich bin ein Berliner speech at Kennedy and the Jelly Doughnut Video

        A Special Thank You to Apis mellifera Linnaeus (i.e., Honey Bees) for providing the ANSWER sequence tonight.
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    ++ QUOTE OF THE DAY ++ -- President John F. Kennedy in West Berlin (June 26, 1963):
            “Freedom has many difficulties, and democracy is not perfect, but we have never had to put a wall up to keep our people in ...
            “Two thousand years ago, the proudest boast was ‘Civis Romanus sum,’ ['I am a citizen of Rome'] ...
             “Today, in the world of freedom, the proudest boast is ‘Ich bin ein Berliner!’ ...
            “All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin, and therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words Ich bin ein Berliner.”
                [Source: TBA]

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