Memories
I receive a daily email from The New York Times. I read through the headlines, occasionally click on an article (like this one… RIDICULOUS!)… but the highlight for me is the last item - this day in history. And today’s took me back to one of my favorite days of high school:
"On Sept. 13, 1993, at the White House, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO chairman Yasser Arafat shook hands after signing an accord granting limited Palestinian autonomy."
I was a freshman in high school, sitting in the back of my US History class taught by the very hot teacher, Mr. McCall. If I recall correctly, we always discussed current events at the beginning of class. And I remember one of the girls raising her hand and proclaiming that "Yasser and Arafat signed an agreement." Now, it was good that she had paid enough attention to know that something was going on… but perhaps noting that Arafat hadn’t signed the accord with himself would have been a helpful detail.
Ah… memories.
