[meteorite-list] Fourth of July and Colby (Wisconsin)

From: GREG LINDH <geeg48_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2007 10:51:40 -0700
Message-ID: <BAY118-F280030A85CE752AF2086C9C9030_at_phx.gbl>

       Hi Bernd,

    Thanks for wishing us a Happy Independence Day and I especially thank
you for the story about the American soldier giving out the candy and
smiling at you. It's good to hear something uplifting like your story.
Thanks again.

    Greg Lindh




>From: bernd.pauli at paulinet.de
>To: Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
>Subject: [meteorite-list] Fourth of July and Colby (Wisconsin)
>Date: 04 Jul 2007 15:07:54 UT
>
>I would like to wish all of our American list members happy, safe and
>peaceful Independence Day celebrations with the Colby (Wisconsin)
>L6 (S3; veined) chondrite. Two stones fell 1917, July 4th, 18:20 hrs
>after the appearance of a luminous meteor with a trail of black smoke,
>moving from NW. to SE., and detonations.
>
>Off-topic:
>
>Such a day brings back memories from my early childhood days here in
>post-war Germany. Chocoloate or chewing gum were something that
>we could only dream of. My mother's sister was going for a walk with
>me and when we were walking past the American military prison here in
>Mannheim, my hometown, there was a friendly smile from an American
>prison guard up on his watchtower and down came a bar of Cadbury
>chocolate and Wrigley's chewing gum. I will never forget these shining
>teeth (the sentinel was a black American!) and that friendly smile on his
>face and I think he is one of those to be "blamed" :-) for my life-long
>sympathy for everything American.
>
>Best Fourth of July
>wishes from Germany,
>
>Bernd
>
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