50! Celebrating the Halfway Point
Fifty years ago – 50! – Lona and I were married on August 24, 1969, at 2 pm in Washington DC at the Hotel America. We met for the first time on a blind date (no, we both had good vision) on the day of Super Bowl 3, when the underdog New York Jets beat the Baltimore Colts 16 – 7, on January 12, 1969…. I hadn’t even seriously considered proposing until the second date a week or so later. … Coward that I can be at times, it took a couple of months to gather the courage to pop the question….