Southwestern Turkey, in a village on the Datcha penninsula. One radio, in the coffee house, broadcasting VOA out of Rhodos. I had just arrived and didn't even know it was going to happen. I am sure to this day there are villagers ( my god it's probably a city now) who still think the Turkish-speaking foreigner who translated the broadcast for them was sent specifically for that purpose. When I said "Kartal indi" (the Eagle has landed) each of the men in the coffee house came up and shook my hand in congratulations. I didn't see a recording of the TV broadcast for another three or four years.
>...those of us who are old enough - where were you when the Eagle landed? Just wondering - channel 4 here in the UK is running a 'live' re-run of the landing (
www.channel4.com has details) which I'm waiting to start.
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>I was eight years old and my father woke me (at 2:30 a.m.) to watch the landing. Still remember the ghostly b&w pictures [beep].
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
