[Magdalen] Where Were You?

[Marilyn Cepeda]

Odd, fifty years ago I was 16. I remember seeing the flight but not where I
was or if I saw it when happening or on the news later.

Marilyn

On Tue, Jul 16, 2019 at 7:36 PM cantor03--- via Magdalen <
magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:

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> 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.
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>
> David Strang.
>
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Marilyn (Owens, Palmero) Cepeda