Events I am glad to have witnessed

Posted on August 6, 2002 in Memory Whimsies

I promised I’d do this.

• My marriage to Lynn
  
• The party at which I met Lynn
  
• The 1991 March against the Gulf War in San Francisco
  
• The landing of the first men on the moon
  
• The safe return of the Apollo 13 astronauts
  
• Shaking the hand of George McGovern
  
• The resignation of Richard Nixon
  
• The Watergate Hearings, especially seeing John Dean telling the truth
  
• Touching the grafitti left by Lord Byron at Sounion, Greece
  
• Seeing the Sistine Chapel and the Vatican
  
• Witnessing the struggles of peace activists in Osijek, Croatia and Beograd, Serbia
  
• Talking to Slovenia and Makedonian activists after the fall of Yugoslavia
  
• Seeing the Hale Bopp comet and staying right here on earth.
  
• Meeting Bella Abzug at Pomona College.
  
• Shaking the hand of Geraldine Ferraro
  
• Seeing how people helped each other after the Quake of 89
  
• Al Gore’s statesmanship after the Supreme Court decision that selected George Bush
  
• Seeing Steven Jobs roll by on roller blades
  
• Observing the annual Clampers’ celebration of Emperor Norton Day
  
• Reading Catch 22 for the first time
  
• Seeing Lyndon Johnson come to San Bernardino to operate the elevator he used to run
  
• My first meeting with my niece Uhuru who was born three months prematurely and has survived