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Goodwill... 365 Days (Year 3) #054 12/24
"...good night, good luck, a Merry Christmas, and God bless all of you -- all of you on the good Earth."
That's how the greeting on Christmas eve ended forty years ago tonight.
That was 1968.
That was the year a black Minister was murdered for the sin of preaching peace and the brother of a fallen president was killed while trying to attain that same lofty office.
The war in Southeast Asia was peaking with the deaths of thousands on the holiday of Tet and Soviet tanks were invading Prague.
That was quite a year...
But this night, forty years ago, everyone stopped...and looked up...
...and listened to the words of three little human beings...
...and for that brief moment we were all one people, the people of Earth.
Thank you Apollo 8 for reminding us just how special the world can be.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1ybxwJJyg8
Goodwill... 365 Days (Year 3) #054 12/24
"...good night, good luck, a Merry Christmas, and God bless all of you -- all of you on the good Earth."
That's how the greeting on Christmas eve ended forty years ago tonight.
That was 1968.
That was the year a black Minister was murdered for the sin of preaching peace and the brother of a fallen president was killed while trying to attain that same lofty office.
The war in Southeast Asia was peaking with the deaths of thousands on the holiday of Tet and Soviet tanks were invading Prague.
That was quite a year...
But this night, forty years ago, everyone stopped...and looked up...
...and listened to the words of three little human beings...
...and for that brief moment we were all one people, the people of Earth.
Thank you Apollo 8 for reminding us just how special the world can be.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1ybxwJJyg8