Reunited. Does it feel so good?

Today is the 15th anniversary of the reunification of East and West Germany.

It's a little disconcerting that my generation was the last one that had any particular fear of total nuclear annihilation from a confrontation of superpowers. The scruffy teenagers that go to the trendy protests have no memories of what it was like with a wall through the heart of Germany and "us" on this side and "them" on their side with a lot of razor wire, attack dogs and machine guns to keep their own people from fleeing the oppression of the Iron Curtain.

I have relatives who lived on both sides of the wall. It's sad that some of them are almost nostalgic for the "good ol' days" of Communist East Germany...