[Magdalen] D-Day

[James Oppenheimer-Crawford]

I was not even a gleam in my daddy's eye....

James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
*“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
except in memory. LLAP**”  -- *Leonard Nimoy

On Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 11:16 AM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <
magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:

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> And here's the question:
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> Where were you when you heard about D-Day (June 6, 1944 if you are
> old enough to have been around)?
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> I was having lunch in our cottage at "the lake" (Big Wood Lake,  Burnett
> County, Wisconsin).  The little plastic radio in the dining area  crackled
> out the essentials over the Twin Cities CBS station there (WCCO), and
> we all listened knowing that this was history in the making.
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> There was, of course, no television coverage since the Twin Cities
> stations didn't start television broadcasts until about 1949.  We got  our
> first home television in 1953.
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> David Strang.
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