Reply #54: Born the day the NYT carried the huge headline: "HITLER DIES!" [View All]

[Seabiscuit]

May 2, 1945. Hitler actually died 2 days earlier, but it took that long to get the story to press. (I actually located a hard copy of that day's paper in the U.C. Berkeley library many years later).

Too late to hear FDR's "fireside chats" live, but early enough to wear an Adlai Stephenson for President button on my shirt to school in 1952. :)

There seem to be only two phases to my life: the innocent, joyful youthful period before JFK's assassination, and the sober, somewhat frightful and complex period ever since. Fortunately, in my old age I identify much more now with the first period which somehow now seems to have lasted much longer than the second phase. I remember things from the 50's and 60's with much greater detail than from the 70's, 80's, or 90's.