For many November 9th will come and go with no special recognition. How sad.

This day marks the 20th year anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall and should most definitely be commemorated by Americans. Have we forgotten our triumph in declaring victory in the cold war, or of liberating Eastern Europeans?

You don't have to let this day go unnoticed. 

Take a trip to the Global Museum On Communism. This online Museum is dedicated to educating this generation and next on the history, philosophy, and legacy of communism and its victims.

The idea is rather clever, the site is set up to create an actual museum like experience complete with exhibits, a visitors guide, and different “halls” that you can virtually walk through.

I suggest you navigate the site like you would a real museum; watch the video intro, press “go,” begin reading through the visitors guide, then choose which exhibits you’d like to visit. This may prove difficult for those of you with self-proclaimed, 3-second attention spans, but really try. It’s a worthy cause.

• (side note: I wish Anita Dunn was on twitter so I could tweet her a link to the part of the website where Mao Tse Tung kills millions of his own people)

The reality is that the average time spent on the site is 3 minutes (stat from Lee Edwards at Heritage’s bloggers briefing today). I hope that number increases as more and more people visit the virtual Museum.

Here’s an idea, take a group trip to the museum on the 9th to commemorate the anniversary. Make an event out of it. Plug your computer into the T.V., turn down the lights, and gather round for a meaningful trip. You could even have someone who’s been to the site previously be the “tour guide.”

I promise it will be worth your time.

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A leading firm in Canada, Liefa Communications, developed the site. Liefa’s founder Marcus Kolga and family were forced to flee Estonia when Red Army troops attacked. His grandparents where prisoners in the Soviet Union labor camps.