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Old Oct 30, 2000 | 9:15 am
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Phil
 
Join Date: Oct 1999
Location: Allentown, PA USA
Programs: Northwest-millionair; Marriott, lifetime gold
Posts: 578
Sharing a cabin with three other students in a ten day ocean crossing to Germany in 1958.

Meeting Konrad Adenauer when he visited President Eisenhower at Gettysburg.

Landing on cleared out jungle airstrips during a visit to Liberia; being a guest at a friend's home in a remote village.

A graduate course with Martin Niemoeller at Drew University.

Walking at midnight through Red Square in Moscow, during the Soviet Union days.

Joining 150,000 people marching around the Old City of Leipzig at a Monday evening demonstration in 1989.

First view of the sphynx and pyramids in 1979.

Waking up to the sounds of the Chao Phyra River in Bangkok.

Waking up to the music of the garbage trucks in Beijing.

Setting up refugee centers for Vietnamese and Cambodians in California, Florida and Pennsylvania in 1975.

Sponsoring three refugee families in the late seventies.

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