[crowd cheering]
- Monika Hohbein-Deegen: That was kind of really surprising to me
after so many years
that you still have to educate some people
that there were problems associated with it.
Ultimately, I'm glad it happened
and I'm also very glad it happened at the time it did
because I was 20 years when the wall fell.
So, on one hand side,
I was old enough to have all of the memories.
I remember everything,
but I was also young enough to take advantage of it;
whereas the older generation,
for them, it was probably very late to do so.
If you were in your fifties, you lost your job,
You have to retrain.
You have to learn computer skills.
That's difficult, you know.
And then, if you were younger, you don't have the memories.
So, I think I was just the right age.
[fireworks popping, crowd cheering]