The 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall this week has special significance for Westminster College in Fulton, Mo., college officials say.

Not only does the college have a piece of the wall, but it was the place where Winston Churchill issued his famous iron curtain warning in 1946, USA Today reported Wednesday.

Churchill had just been voted out of power as Britain's prime minister when he told an audience at the Missouri college: "From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the continent."

After the Berlin Wall fell, Churchill's granddaughter had a section of it brought to Westminster and had shapes of a man and a woman cut out of it. She named the piece "Breakthrough."

Other pieces of the wall are on display all across the United States from a community college in Hawaii to a floating restaurant in Maine.