I had just gone to Ft. Hood Tx on active duty when the wall fell, and went to Germany for an exercise the next year. I still remember seeing East Berlin......is should have been left as a monument to the stupidity of communism......minus the little girl, couldn't have been more than 4 or 5 years old, picking through a dumpster.

The pucker factor when the wall came down was high, as no one knew what the Soviet Union was going to do in response. It didn't get any calmer as the changes ripped through the Soviet Union after the wall fell.