[Magdalen] Where Were You?

[Ginga Wilder]

John was one month into his tour in Vietnam.  I was 8 months pregnant with
our first child and living with my parents for the year he was gone.  I
watched the small b&w television by myself from beginning to end of the
coverage.  Will never forget Walter Cronkite's overwhelmed, "Oh, boy!",
then taking his glasses off and becoming speechless.  Awesome.

Ginga

On Tue, Jul 16, 2019 at 8:36 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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