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Originally Posted by ChrisH
How could the most space happy kid in the neighborhood miss an event like this?
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I graduated from high school in the spring of 1969 and some of my peers were making tough decisions regarding Vietnam. Others were going off to college and the impact of flower power and sit-ins. We were dealing with many issues on many fronts as a society and a generation and much of it was serious.
Taken from one of my Facebook posts:
So many of us were dreamers, wonderers, wanderers, believers, and hopeful people. In a way it was like, if we could travel to the moon and walk on it, then we could find ways to solve our troubles here on earth. We lived in a time of change and turbulence and even fear - and the commitment, skills, and talents of the folks involved in and who supported space exploration and the program, helped turn fear and cynicism into hope, keeping dreams alive....
That was no small thing.
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Excellence is contagious. ~ Andy Baker, President, AndyMark, Inc. and Woodie Flowers Award 2003
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
~ Helen Keller (1880-1968)