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Old 07-17-2008, 08:33 AM
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In Remembrance
 
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ok - I'll play...

JFK assasination - I was in Kindergarden. People just went crying for no apparent reason to me. His funeral - it must've been on a Saturday because I remember being upset because it preempted cartoons.

7/20/69 - The Tuesday Cleveland Plain Dealer newspaper was as thick as a Sunday paper!!! I delivered 75 of those things. Who cares man landed on the moon! I still have a copy...

7/25/69 - The Sunday Plain Dealer weighed at least 20 pounds! I delivered 110 of them! Who cares if the first men on the moon splashed down. I still have a copy of that one too.

6/10/66 - Cleveland Indians' pitcher Sonny Siebert pitched a no hitter. Cleveland 2, Washington Senators 0. I was there...

9/11 - Sitting at my desk at work, boss sticks his head into my office and says a plane flew into 1 WTC. I said yeah right...

November 1983 - I was stationed in West Germany when we received the first batch of the Pershing II nuclear missiles - they replaced the Pershing 1A missiles. We could hit Moscow and most major soviet bases with the PII. The PIA could only hit bases in the satellite countries. Guess what? Cold war's over. It took a few years for the INF treaty, but deploying the PII ended the cold war. We had no idea at the time we were making history...

8/24/92 - stupid me tried to drive from Tampa FL to Miami FL that morning. I finally made it to Miami that evening. Have you ever tried to drive thru a hurricane? House destroyed. Hurricane Andrew.

Can y'all tell my vacation starts in 4 hours????

Tom
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