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Old 07-17-2009, 11:59 PM   #29
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I missed it; I was on board a US nuclear submarine conducting builder’s trials. There is a better than even chance that we were submerged at the time, but at any rate we did not have a working television to watch the most historically significant event of the second millennium.

I recall watching reruns at my fiancé’s house, and having that “Wow, I missed it” feeling.
Which Sub? My uncle, VAdm Levering Smith worked with Rickover on the Polaris project which sort of went hand in hand with certain of the nuclear subs.
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