[Magdalen] D-Day

[James Oppenheimer-Crawford]

We will have a special little non-celebration. My beloved spouse's parents
married on 7 June 1944. Two truly superb people who produced a truly
splendid daughter.  We will miss them and think of them.

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 11:24 AM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:

> I was almost a year old so I think I was probably in Columbia, MO, with my
> mom, waiting out the war at my paternal grandparents' home. I really don't
> know why there instead of with her parents in Osceola, MO, although I do
> know that we went back and forth some. I have dim memories of both places.
> But I have NO memory of D-Day. My dad was in the Pacific Theater as weather
> officer on the USS St. George, a seaplane tender.
>
> On Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 11:16 AM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <
> magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
>
> >
> > And here's the question:
> >
> > Where were you when you heard about D-Day (June 6, 1944 if you are
> > old enough to have been around)?
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > David Strang.
> >
> >
> >
> >
>