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Singing "God Bless America," CIA supporters drowned the chants of protesters yelling "CIA, USA, out of Nicaragua...
Soon, Carol decided to bless us. She would give us luck by rubbing her hand over ours. She rubbed her hand on mine, and I stepped to the line and rolled. Strike. The next frame, she did it again. I rolled. Strike. And on the next frame, too, the same result. Strike. When I came back after my third strike, she smiled broadly, and nodded as if she had known all along I was going to make three straight strikes...
Then the national mood shifted. America wept. From the White House to farmhouses, Americans joined in mourning their common loss. Flags were lowered to half-staff. Makeshift signs appeared in countless cities: WE SALUTE OUR HEROES. GOD BLESS THEM ALL. President Reagan, in a moving broadcast to the nation that afternoon, paraphrased a sonnet written by John Gillespie Magee, a young American airman killed in World War II: "We will never forget them nor the last time we saw them this morning as they prepared for their journey and waved goodbye and 'slipped the surly bonds of earth to touch...
...trainers in which all astronauts prepare for their dangerous duties --roared overhead. It would have been a perfect V formation except that a fifth plane was missing, and another symbolic void was created when one of the jets veered sharply away from the others. As the band played God Bless America, the President and the First Lady went down the line of family members, shaking their hands, offering final words of solace, and hugging little Erin and the other children as they began...
...goes to school now too, to learn how to be a beautician. "I even signed up the girls for ballet lessons." When she smiles she looks baby-tough, like an East Side Kid from the movies of the 1930s. A plate hung above the kitchen door reads GOD BLESS THIS LOUSY APARTMENT...