As testified by Rabbi Binyamin Levine, his grandson (from an article we brought in the past):
Rabbi Levene says, “On Thursday, the war was still going on. On Friday, the army came to bring my grandfather to the Kotel before they opened it up to the public. My grandfather said, ‘Binyamin, du velst cumim mit mere (you will come with me).’ A car took us through the Mandelbaum gate, and we came into the Old City onto a little, little street. You couldn’t see the Wall; there were houses all the way up to it. (A week later, they knocked the houses down so throngs could come on Shavuos.)
“My grandfather wanted to make a kriah, rend his garment, because he hadn’t been to the Kotel since 1948, but he couldn’t do it. I had a pocket knife and made a cut for him. He tore his garment and made a Shehechiyanu. He was crying and started running down this alleyway. He was 80 years old. I was 20 years old, and I tried to keep up with him. And at the end of the alley was the Kotel. He started kissing the stones, his hat fell off, and he fell. Soldiers recognized him and came running to help him get up.
“What was amazing to me was that we had two pictures in our living room in Jersey City: one of my grandfather, the tzadik of Yerushalaym, and one of the ‘Koisel.’ As a child, when I had a test the next day, I used to talk to the two pictures. So, here I am running after my grandfather, and the two pictures are in front of me: my grandfather and the Kotel, only they’re live! It was like a dream.
“Then we went to Kever Rochel,” Rabbi Levene continues, “and these soldiers there were crying. My grandfather said, ‘Only by a real mother can we cry like that.’ What was most amazing to me was that, even though he was so excited, and everyone was so euphoric and thought Mashiach was coming, yet my grandfather was closed in on himself. I asked him why. He said, ‘When Avraham fought the kings to save Lot, after he won, it says that Hashem came to Avraham in a vision, and Hashem says, “Don’t be afraid, Avraham, I am a shield for you; your reward is very great.” Isn’t it odd that after the battle, after the great victory, Hashem said, “I am a shield for you”? What does it mean?’ My grandfather answered, ‘Even though the victory was very great, the “kings” will never allow us to keep that victory; they will do everything to take it away. Everyone is so happy, but I am worried. I don’t think the battle is over. The nations of the world will not let us keep it.’”
Note: It seems the source is Rabbi Efrem Goldberg’s “Behind the Bima”