"Year w/out a Summer" & "Rich Men North of a Million:" This Date in History

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donbosco said:
Alas you are correct. I did "let my hair down" for a moment. My apologies.
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Sorry. You contribute so much to this board and I contribute so little that actually has merit, I should have just kept my mouth shut. My apologies.
 
nycfan said:
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My parents were in Prague that morning. They woke to the sounds of machine guns firing and tanks rumbling down streets. Dad was supposed to give a talk at an international conference.

The US Embassy was shut tight.

The British Embassy helped organize a train to take non-Czechs to border and beyond.
 
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