BOOM! We stumble upon remnants of the Berlin Wall from the Cold War. Germans from both sides of the Wall tore it down in 1989 as the Soviet Empire fell apart. The end of the Cold War heralded a promise of world peace, more integrated economies, and greater global unity. Unfortunately these dreams faded with never-ending wars across the Middle East and Central/South Asia and parts of Africa that kept drawing other countries into their vortexes while rippling out waves of terrorism and instability.