An emotional return to Checkpoint Charlie for former U.S. soldier William Guenther. He was posted in Germany in the 1970s. It's his first trip back since then, but he remembers the fall of the Berlin wall like it was yesterday.
(SOUNDBITE) (English) FORMER U.S. SOLDIER WHO WAS STATIONED IN GERMANY, WILLIAM GUENTHER, SAYING:
"A friend called me, I live way up in the mountains on a remote place, he called, I drove 20 miles to his house for he has television and I saw people dancing on the Brandenburg Gate. I just thought: Yes! Yes! Freedom! Freedom for the East! It meant so much to me."
25 years after the collapse of the wall, Checkpoint Charlie-- infamous crossing point between East and West Berlin, stands as a reminder of a city, split into two by ideology and a concrete wall.
(SOUNDBITE) (German) RESIDENT OF BERNAUER STRASSE WHEN WALL WAS BUILT, JULIKA BERG, SAYING:
"Our daughter was only one year old and the Wall was being built. It was very dramatic, it
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