--- JTD jtd@mtnl.net.in wrote:
On Monday 16 January 2006 5:42 pm, Abhishek Daga wrote:
If nothing else, we can atleast just touch him. I mean how many of us have even seen Capt. Rakesh Sharma.. Let alone Neil Armstrong, Edwin Aldrin or yuri Gagarin.
I have seen Neil Armstrong, Edwin Aldrin and Michael Collins AND shook hands with one of them. I was a kid when they visited India in 1969 and was watching their motorcade pass by Lady Jamsetji rd. near Mahim church. For some inexplicable reason the PM Indira Gandhi's car slowed down and all the others followed suit. I and a couple of kids darted on to the road shook hands and asked how big is the moon? Could not catch the reply in the cacphony.
Ofcourse. It had to be JTD. hehe. Well good for you, SIR. 1969. wow. Dude. You must have had some good times back then in the 70s. The first Freedom Movement post independence. It's only fair that you are part of the free movement of the 90s.
Not to be outdone I have to say that in 1984 when I was a kid of 8.5 we got an early off from school to catch Rakesh Sharma's live telecast from the salyut. Ok so who here was a KID in the 90s and knows Micheal Jackson as the most controversial white musician of the decade?
-cheers. abhi
ps: I know I digressed. apologies.
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