The night the wall came down
Often when events occur that change our world we remember where we were and what we were doing. I distinctly remember the events of November 9, 1989 – the night the Berlin Wall fell. I was an undergrad at the University of Missouri in Columbia. I was taking political science classes and we were discussing events unfolding in East Germany and the Soviet Bloc countries as the signs became clear that the authoritarian regimes were in trouble.