Obama acknowledged the anniversary of the fall of the wall last week during his meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel. "We are now moving towards the 20th anniversary of the Berlin Wall coming down and Germany being reunified after so many painful years ... And this is a special moment for Chancellor Merkel, as somebody who grew up in East Germany, who understands what it's like to be under the shadow of a dictatorial regime, and to see how freedom has bloomed in Germany, how it has become the centerpiece for a extraordinarily strong European Union." He said the U.S.-Germany alliance is an "extraordinary pillar of the transatlantic relationship." Full Article at Accuracy in Media