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"I remember the night we landed on the moon. I was outside looking up, thinking how strange it was."
"I worked on the 81st floor of the North Tower and my wife worked on the 71st floor of the South Tower."
Elvis in concert: "It was 1954, Waco, Texas. There were hundreds of people . . . some were screaming . . . "
"When the Cuban Missle Crisis hit we went on Red Alert, not knowing what was going on."
"I fell in love with Venice from the moment the water taxi approached and the city came into view."
"It was a 1953 Plymouth, 4 door, hard top. Two-tone, canary yellow & cream. In-line six cylinder."
"After a second torpedo hit we were dead in the water and the captain gave the abandon ship signal."
"Telephones had no buttons, no dials. You picked up the receiver and told the operator your number."
"I saw PSA flight 182, a Boeing 727, in the seconds before it crashed into the San Diego neighborhood . . ."
"I have very clear memories of Robert Kennedy's assassination. I was a junior in high school . . ."
"I lost my wonderful younger sister Rachel Joy Scott the day of the Columbine shooting."
"I had somehow wandered out into no man's land. I was in a German foxhole!"
"This is possibly my most memorable moment at any concert . . . including Woodstock."
"The Mary Tyler Moore Show: Now there was a show that changed my life!"
"This is a World War Two story but somewhat rare. I was a B-29 pilot and flew 35 missions over Japan . . ."
"I was just a kid when President Kennedy was shot. My Dad was in the Navy, but was off duty that day . . ."
"We took care of wounded Marines and Soldiers coming in from the battle of Hue City . . ."
"It was September 17, 1987 in Monterey, CA and I had an opportunity to meet Pope John Paul II . . ."
"Somewhere around 2:30 I heard the loudest noise I had ever heard in my life."
"As we walked over a rise, I realized that we were headed to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial."

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The Longest Night

The morning of November 18th, 1967, A Company 1st Battalion, 1st Platoon, 1st Squad was preparing to move to Hill 882 to set up a blocking position. I would be lying if I said it was a normal morning. Yes some things were normal or more routine, such as stand to, security, bringing in Claymores, trip flares, and filling in the fighting positions, (foxholes), but everything was done with such care and quietness because we had had almost daily contact with the NVA, (North Vietnamese Army), for the past few days. There was tension in the air . . .
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