I was a junior in college when the wall fell before formal reunification. I was a T.A. for an education course and I was in the T.A. lounge with the others working out grading standards for an assignment when someone came in a said that the Berlin Wall was being torn down. We all went outside and, I kid you not, there was a rainbow in the sky -- a very rare sight in northern New Hampshire in the Fall. I have never been exceptionally spiritual, but I couldn't help but see that as a very poignant sign. One I fear we very fallible people have done poorly with.