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Trying again from Jim on Facebook (fwd)
- To: robert <http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert>
- Subject: Trying again from Jim on Facebook (fwd)
- From: Noelle <noelle>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2016 07:17:30 -0700 (PDT)
- User-agent: Alpine 2.11 (DEB 23 2013-08-11)
> From: Bhavani <http://www.juno.com/~bhavaniowl>
> Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2016 06:59:42 -0600
>
> On this date in 1969 man set foot on the moon. When my father
> was a boy growing
> up on Asylum Street in Hartford Ct, they lived across the
> street from the Fire
> House. On Saturday mornings Dad would climb out onto the fire
> escape to watch
> the fire horses drill at the fire station across the street.
> Dad also watched
> Neil Armstrong land on the moon. Between those two events almost
> a hundred
> million people died in European Wars, two atomic bombs were
> dropped, a Great
> Depression was survived, he married Flora Kerwin and they adopted
> my sister
> Bhavani and me. Teddy Roosevelt was shot, FDR was shot at,
> Harry Truman
> was shot at, JFK was shot and killed, Bobby Kennedy was shot
> and killed, MLK
> was shot and killed, Malcolm X was shot and killed. Through it
> all Dad and Mom
> lived lives of commitment to their families and other loved ones,
> Dad never
> took a drink and my mother lived a life of moderation...except
> when she and my
> wife got drunk in London in a bar across the street from
> Buckingham Place and
> I had a hell of a time getting them back to the place where
> we were staying in
> Shakespeare country.
>
> > On Jul 20, 2016, at 9:32 PM, Noelle <http://dummy.us.eu.org/noelleg> wrote:
> > I don't see anything he wrote.
> >
> >> On Wed, 20 Jul 2016, Bhavani wrote:
> >> Jim wrote this on FB.