[Magdalen] Where Were You?

[Charles Wohlers]

I had just graduated from college and was living at my parent's house 
while having a summer job at my father's place of employment (Allied 
Chemical in Morristown, NJ). In September I was to start grad school. So 
I saw the landing a few days before my 22nd birthday on our old B/W TV 
in the den where I had watched TV so many times before.

Now Allied Chemical is no more, our house is no more, as it and the 
neighbor's were torn down to make way for 3 McMansions, and I haven't 
lived in New Jersey for many years. Sic transit and all that.

-- 
Chad Wohlers
chad at satucket.com
Woodbury, VT   USA



On 16.07.2019 20:35, cantor03--- via Magdalen wrote:
> This is one of those days when one looks back where they were, in
> thiscase 50 years ago and the successful man on the moon flightof
> Apollo 11?
> I was at an ecumenical prayer service at the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial
> Churchin Berlin, Germany for the safety and success of the
> astronauts.  Two of mybrothers, Jim, and Paul were with me.  It's that
> ultramodern blue glass churchsituated in the ruins of the old
> neo-Romanesque church and it is at the headof the Kurfurstendamm, the
> elegant shopping street of Berlin.  I lived inFrankfurt/Main at the
> time.
> Berlin was still "West Berlin" then, and we flew into the City on one
> of thecheap flights that were offered at the time in an effort to keep
> West Berlinviable.
> 
> 
> David Strang.