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01-21-2009, 07:25 AM
Posted By: <b>Howard.W.Rosenberg</b><p>Here's a hard-to-top article on the occasion of Obama's swearing in, and tied, reasonably closely, to everyone's favorite hobby:<br><br><a href="http://blogs.ft.com/brusselsblog/2009/01/the-top-ten-american-moments-of-your-life" target="_new" rel="nofollow">http://blogs.ft.com/brusselsblog/2009/01/the-top-ten-american-moments-of-your-life</a>/
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01-21-2009, 09:24 AM
Posted By: <b>George</b><p>On my personal list, #1 is the Chambliss home run, which occurred on October 5, 1976, at Yankee Stadium. I was at the game with my son, who commandeered a piece of turf in the aftermath, which we took home and planted in the front lawn. (My son did not lift the turf from the field........it fell from a piece of sod that someone else had lifted.)<br><br>The inauguration of President Obama ranks as #3,247,974. This is right behind #3,247,973, which occurred on July 13, 1971, in a game in which Horace Clarke hit a Texas Legue single to left field. The Yankees were in 7th place, and the game had no effect on the standings. #3,247,975 occurred on July 14, 1971, when the game was rained out.<br><br>
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01-21-2009, 01:47 PM
Posted By: <b>Al</b><p>#s 1 through 8:<br><br>Coming home from Vietnam after a year in the 1st Infantry Division.<br><br># 9: Hearing the captain of that BEAUTIFUL Continental Airlines 707 come over the intercom not long after departing Ton Son Nhut airbase in Saigon saying, "ladies and gentleman, I am pleased to announce that we are now well beyond enemy gunfire". You had to be there to appreciate that one.<br><br># 10: Seeing my parents again at Logan airport in Boston. November 6th, 1970.<br><br><br><br>As for Obama, yesterday was historic, but let's see where we are in a couple of years.<br><br>