FILE PHOTO: West Berlin citizens welcome East Germans who passed through the border checkpoint Invalidenstrasse with an East German Trabant car on November 9, 1989. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch/File Photo
BERLIN (Reuters) - When Mike Pompeo was posted to Europe as a U.S. soldier in the late 1980s, he patrolled the border that marked the "Iron Curtain" dividing East and West.
As he gazed on the militarised frontier back then, he had no idea that the Berlin Wall was about to fall and East and West Germany would be reunited less than a year after its fall.
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