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To: Lady Lurksalot who wrote (8955)	3/26/1998 12:16:00 AM
From: JF Quinnelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

Yeah, our grandparents truly lived through remarkable times. My paternal grandmother was born in 1876 and I believe lived to be 88. Her uncles fought in the Civil War, and she lived to see us going into space. The rest of my grandparents were all born in 1890. A world powered by horses and steam engines. Man didn't fly. They were adults by the time radio arrived. There hasn't been a period of camparable change, and maybe there won't be one again. Which reminds me, wasn't Connections a great series?

To: Lady Lurksalot who wrote (8955)	3/26/1998 11:51:00 AM
From: Jacques Chitte	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

My memory of the '69 moon shot. July, and the family was on its quadrennial pilgrimage to Vienna, where my grandmother and uncle had one of these marvelous apartments with hardwood floors and real tall ceilings and plaster an inch thick. One fine evening the TV was tuned to the Apollo news. Now even as an eight-year-old I was fascinated with space, so I was fairly glued to the set. My folks sent me to take a bath, which i dutifully did. (The price of defying my parents was established very early in my life as higher than I cared for.) When I was all dry and in my jammies, the Eagle had landed. Now I don't know if it was an artifact of the tape-delayed broadcast, but I was bummed.