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25 years ago today - USA v USSR
And ESPN is showing it tonight:'m 25 years old,'' Marilyn Monroe says in "Some Like It Hot.'' "That's a quarter of a century. Makes a girl think.'' The Miracle on Ice hits the quarter-century mark today, and if I said not a year has gone by that I don't think about it, I would be exaggerating only a bit. There never has been anything like it, of course. Not for the sheer surprise of it. Or the enormity. Or the impact. Or the joy. Usually, when you are present at something that was not supposed to happen -- that was not supposed to be possible -- it takes time to get your arms around it. To understand what it means and how it will change the lives of those who made it happen.... Posted by: anonymous2u 2005-02-22 |
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