Wow Euph. That is a great story. I remember that day vividly. My brother went to Wurzburg for a summer college course, and brought me back a part of that wall. I love that.
I oughta tell you the story of the ceremony in which we gave away Checkpoint Charlie (which was not much more than a small travel trailer set down in the middle of Friedrichstrasse -- in order to go to East Berlin, you had to process through the MPs in the trailer) to the Berliners.
Playing the National March (Stars and Stripes Forever), minding my own business pretty much off in La-La land (it's a head tune), and some guy comes over and sticks a video camera in my face -- literally 2 inches away from my nose.
It was a little unsettling, but I just continued playing and did my best to ignore it.
A few years later, I was in a different assignment taking a college class (in German) when the professor looked at me kinda funny and said, "Ich habe Dich zu Hause" (I've got you at home.) WTF?
It turned out he had a copy of the video in which my mug was presented for a full minute right at the opening credits. It was a German documentary of Reunification and the prof had bought a copy of the tape for his own collection.
Needless to say, I got an "A" in the class.
