“We were told that on Christmas Eve we would have the largest audience that had ever listened to a human voice, and the only instructions that we got from NASA was to do something appropriate.”
Colonel Frank Borman, Commander of Apollo 8
December 24, 1968: In the Beginning
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
I vividly remember listening to this with my parents and my brother on our portable radio, as we sat around the kitchen table late in the evening of that Christmas Eve.
Imagine the heads exploding all around us if anyone had the temerity to read such a message to the world today. How far we have fallen. 🙁
Thank you for sharing this, Don.
Merry and Blessed Christmas to you and your bride and your whole family
Thank you Cathy! Same to you and yours.