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[Lamplighter]

For all of you who are 50 years or older,
or whose parents are 50 years or more,
or whose grandparents are older than 50 years...

...and that were also living in the USA 50 years ago,
come this Saturday October 27, 2012

CONGRATULATIONS TO BEING ALIVE !

When I put my daughter to bed, and my wife and I
eventually fell asleep on the couch after midnight
that Saturday, 50 years ago, I truly did not expect
to be would be alive the next morning.

We were living in Texas, and for the days
of the week before, I had seriously thought
about sending my wife and daughter back
to her my wife's hometown in western Montana.
But even Montana did not seem far enough away.
Doing anything seemed completely futile.

Strangely, I remember that night in black and white TV.
We were kids when it happened, but we remembered
the fire bombings of Germany and Japan.

We knew of troop mobilizations underway nearby.
Pearl Harbor was the worse to happen to the USA
until then, yet the country remained optimistic.
But we then remembered scenes from Nagasaki.

That night bode evil.