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A Day out of the Usual

Posted: Sunday, January 08, 2012

by David Tanguay

On May 5, 1961, I was only 12 years old I attended a small country school at this time. What was special about this day was a history-making day it was then that Alan Shepard became the first American in space.

I remember it was on a Friday the day our music teacher came to our school. I remember that day very well she came running into our class and told us to come outside she had the broadcast on her car radio. We listened intently as history was taking place that day.

Our teacher told us to remember that day she said you will be able to tell your grandchildren about the event that took place on this particular day.

It was a very short mission he didn’t orbit the earth just went up into space and back to earth, he landed in the Atlantic Ocean.

Yes this was almost 51 years ago boy it don’t seem possible I guess I’m getting old although I don’t feel it. This day was out of the usual for my school classmates and me.

“We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.” George Bernard Shaw

Alan Shepard

Dave Tanguay was born on November 8,1948 in Westbrook, Maine. The 10^th. child of a family of eleven children. Served in Vietnam in the 60s, he became active with the youth movement of that day on completion of military duty. Now retired and living in Florida. (still believes in the young)

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