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October 10th!

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  In case you didn't realize it, today is October 10th. I subscribe to a free email from the History Channel called "This Day in History". It is always interesting to see what happened through the years on a particular day and makes for good reading.  I see that on October 10, 1985, the Achille Lauro drama came to a close as the highjackers were arrested. I was in the midst of raising kids and milking cows at this time so have no recollection of being aware of these events at the time, but it must have been high drama!  In 2004 Superman actor Christopher Reeves died at the age of 52, living the life of a quadraplegic for nine years following a horse accident.  In 1991, a former US Postal worker went on a killing spree following being fired from his post office job. Turns out this was the first of several incidents in which postal workers took out their frustrations on innocent people and introduced the term "going postal" into our vocabulary. In 1973, and I do r