[Magdalen] Where Were You?

[P. Dan Brittain]

I had finished the first year of my masters and was back at home working to
save a little for the wedding in August.

(So this year is also our 50th)

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On Wed, Jul 17, 2019 at 3:17 PM Ginga Wilder <gingawilder at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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:
>
> >
> >
> > 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.
> >
>


-- 
P. Dan Brittain
Harrison, Arkansas

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