My Brush with History

<p>Kennedy looked out the limo’s back window and kept waving and smiling, despite the pain he must have felt.</p>

<p>The explosion at the Army Math Center blew in the window near my laboratory desk.</p>

<p><span class="deck">During their vacation, a couple from the United States crossed Checkpoint Charlie and had a harrowing experience as they encountered soldiers on both sides of the Berlin Wall.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">The </span>old man smoking a cigar looked like Winston Churchill.</p>

<p><span class="deck">One man’s march when </span>Jim Crow laws were in full force</p>

<p><span><span><span><span><span>The author was a high school football player when a junior coach from West Point tried to recruit him. Years later, the player discovered who the now-famous coach was, and learned a valuable lesson. </span></span></span></span></span></p>

<p>A college student in the march from Selma to Montgomery recalls the struggle for democracy in Alabama in 1965.</p>