mort marks

April 13, 1970 — Apollo 13 — “Hey, we’ve got a problem here.”Thus, calmly, Command Module Pilot Jack Swigert gave the first intimation to a world, then bored by 12 previously successful “routine” Apollo flights, that there might be serious trouble for Flight 13 — 200,00 miles above earth.   As the men in Apollo…

“Freedom,” Ronald Reagan warned, “is never more than one generation away from extinction.” Although I’m a veteran from WW II and getting up in years I can still remember the “Great Depression Generation” of the 1930s and where we were on that fateful December 7, 1941 — a day that made my generation once again…