This project is part of "Freedom Without Walls", which commemorates the fall of the Berlin Wall 20 years ago. Westminster College is one of 30 universities or colleges around the country that received a grant from the German government to build a replica wall.

"We've created eight sections of the Berlin Wall, which we've got around campus and around the city of Fulton in the schools and in the courthouse," said Dr. Rob Havers, the Churchill Memorial's Executive Director. "People are going to be marking on the walls, graffittiing on the walls. We're going to assemble these sections over here on the plaza on Nov. 9 and symbolically topple them over."

And two sides of the wall are now the canvas for budding artists from Bush Elementary. They can write their names, draw pictures, or add pretty much any decoration they want. Some chose to make a more obvious mark.

"I drew a smiley face, a star, and peace because when they built it and tore it down, they were trying to have peace in the world," fifth grader Suzanne Todd said.

Right now, it seems like art class, but the students are scribbling their names into a history they're just beginning to understand.

"I know it was knocked down 20 years ago because they became one - they became a democracy," fifth grader Audrey Brandon said.

"It's very old and it was built in Germany and they also separated from their family," first grader Hunter Hampton said.

The replica wall, shadowed by the original wall, will be breached at 6:53 p.m. Nov. 9, the exact time it was breached 20 years ago. The public is invited to attend.

"It's given everyone a better historical perspective of this panel that's here and why it's here and maybe freedoms that they take for granted and how important those are," Westminster Director of College Relations Rob Crouse said.

The eight panels are the largest whole section of the wall in the world outside of Berlin.

"Winston Churchill, of course, comes here in '46 and predicts the beginning of the Cold War. We have this wonderful sculpture behind me that marks the end of it," Havers said.

These kids are learning history by making it.

"You get to learn more about it and it's not just out of a textbook," Todd said.

And, they get the freedom to color on something they're usually not allowed to. The fall of a wall and the rise of a new freedom.

"We're trying to celebrate the Berlin wall," Hampton said.