On hearing Sammy Fain’s World War2 them “I’ll be seeing you”your foreign correspondent and his frau vicariously reinvented our Fort Greene Brooklyn Tech High School yesterdays to “teaching space in our High Schools”
at Colorado Springs, Air Force Academy several decades ago, long before original sin’s breathtaking commission and planetary murder of a selfless hero. A Robin Hood, a mythical larger than life high school ice skating champion from Massachusetts who moved to train at the Colorado Springs Olympic facilities.
at Colorado Springs, Air Force Academy several decades ago, long before original sin’s breathtaking commission and planetary murder of a selfless hero. A Robin Hood, a mythical larger than life high school ice skating champion from Massachusetts who moved to train at the Colorado Springs Olympic facilities.
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The narrative may be nothing like Hitchcock’s 39 Steps plot and the missing finger spy, living out “Mister Atomic ‘’s murder in England’s green turf outside London’s Piccadilly Square where Mr. Atomic was mowed down as he went through his memorable recall of the b0omb’s “Oppenheimer” code.
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Who knew the Academy would put us up for a week in President Carter’s vacated abode on the Camp grounds (a deer munching grass) while the Academy’s digs would be ready for our two weeks in Colorado Springs.
Who among us mortals knew that the metamorphosis of our two 2 weeks “teaching Space” would lend itself to our Planet’s stage..
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The Black Friday shopping spree, 24 hours after Thanksgiving, would come to grips with a 56 year old loner of a gunman, terrorizing the town where we would be witness to this madness.
The Black Friday shopping spree, 24 hours after Thanksgiving, would come to grips with a 56 year old loner of a gunman, terrorizing the town where we would be witness to this madness.
An American hero Garret Sweeney, (a campus policeman)being gunned down, without rhyme and reason by a hood who lost his way, from the cradle to the grave.
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The stellar cast involved the Russian Mir co pilot, the femme an d frau of the “in future” Secretary of Air Force, his own agenda, could hardly anticipate the 56 year old deranged loner. Attacking a Planned Parenthood site, the Chase Bank, the restaurant on the town’s Makin Street, the parking lot for the several stores,ridging the Planned Parenthood offices.
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Thirty nine steps metamorphosing into the pop culture “Mister Atomic” being assassinated on a Piccadilly Square West End stage, just beyond comprehension in the Rockies of AmericanCivilization.
A big order for a Rocky Mountain town named Colorado Springs. The 56 year old loner of a stud finally surrenderingafter his 6 hour presence in the space, housing Planned Parenthood.
The only defendant of the public right to inhabit this civic scene was a University of Colorado defender, A Massachusetts ice skating champion, who left the campus on hearing the gun fire, the lone wolf had wounded several officers and killed our hero,who in our estimation became a martyr.
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In the meantime, the swat squad invaded the Planned Parenthood building and were able to convince, persuade cajolethe 56 year old deranged loer to give up.
The Tin Pan Alley of Irving Berlin, George and Ira Gershwin,was never like this insane madcap. The “Ugly” had vanquished “Yankee Doodle le Do” and his Dream.
The hero and his ice skating dream, leaving the University of Colorado campus, his antenna as a complete human being onthe beat, hearing the shootings in and around the parking lot:Planned Parenthood, the Chase Bank, the market, restaurant where we hung out breakfasts of oatmeal, orange juice, toast and a glass of milk.
The UGLY had vanquished “Yankee Doodle Dandy” and his dream.
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“Daddy is not coming home”( to his eleven year old son an younger daughter) Sammy Fain’s “I’ll be seeing you in all the old familiar places..” (Fulton Jr. High, Van Nuys, Ca: Ben Wetzel, principal, Norman Schacter, assistant principal, NFL referee, Ben’s niece a student teaching space)
November 28, 2015 The City that never sleeps.
