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Al#s 1 through 8:
Coming home from Vietnam after a year in the 1st Infantry Division.
# 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.
# 10: Seeing my parents again at Logan airport in Boston. November 6th, 1970.
As for Obama, yesterday was historic, but let's see where we are in a couple of years.