Why Did I Choose To Be Born?

If my gestation period were 9 months, that means that somewhere around September 6, 1960 when I decided to manifest myself on the physical plane again, so I got to wondering, “why?”  What was happening in the fall of 1960 that made me want to come back and make a difference?  (My email address at this time was [email protected])

 

In October Jane Goodall observes tool-making by a chimpanzee, calling the attention of science to the practice. She sees a chimp that she has named David Graybeard take a blade of grass and shape it so that it can be poked into a termite mound for the purpose of removing termites. David proceeds to eat the termites so obtained.

 

Echo, the first passive communications satellite, is launched on August 12 as a result of efforts by John Pierce.  Other communications-satellite developments are by the U.S. military. On May 22 Midas 2, the first U.S. spy satellite designed for detecting missile launches, relays information it obtains with infrared cameras to Earth. On August 18 the military satellite Corona, publicly known by the civilian code name Discoverer 13, is launched. It successfully returns a capsule to Earth -- the first object ever returned from space. A week later Discoverer 14 uses cameras designed by Edwin Land to spy on the Soviet Union, parachuting canisters of film back to Earth, where they are captured in air by specially equipped aircraft. They are said to yield more images in a single day than the U-2 spy system had in its entire lifetime. There will be more than a hundred similar missions in the Corona program, which continues until 1972.

 

In November Digital Equipment Corporation led by Kenneth Olsen introduces the PDP-1, a computer with a maximum memory of 26,000 bytes, making it state of the art. It is the first commercial computer with a keyboard input and a monitor to show what the user has entered. Because of its size and configuration, it is the predecessor of the minicomputer, a computer affordable by small businesses.

 

The first commercial reprocessing plant for radioactive wastes is built in West Valley, New York.  

Physician John Charnley [b. Bury, Lancashire, England, 1911, d. 1982] implants a two-part joint replacement made of plastic and cobalt-chrome into a human to replace a damaged joint.  Wilson Greatbatch [b. Buffalo, New York, September 6, 1919] files a patent for an implantable pacemaker that permanently regulates heartbeat.

 

About this time some women enlarge or reshape their breasts with a semiliquid plastic in a bag that is implanted in the skin; the plastic material is silicone, familiar to many by its trade name as the toy Silly Putty. About 2,000,000 women will use the implants in the next 30 years.

 

August 29, 1960 Hurricane Donna kills 50 people in FL. Oct. 14, 1960 Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy participate in the first T.V. presidential debate. Nov. 1, 1960 JFK announced his idea of a Peace Corps.  Interracial marriages are illegal in 31 states.  February 1, 1960 the first blacks contest segregated tables and after 6 months of protesting are granted the right to eat with whites.  March 6, 1960 Switzerland gives women the right to vote.  May 9, 1960 the FDA approved the birth control pill.

 

I've been writing my story since I was able to write, but when the media goes to share it, they only choose the parts that fit their idea of what will generate views.  If I'm going to share my story, it should be the whole story.  The titles are the dates things happened. If you have any interest in who I really am please start at the beginning of this playlist: http://savethecats.org/

 

I know there will be people who take things out of context and try to use them to validate their own misconception, but you have access to the whole story.  My hope is that others will recognize themselves in my words and have the strength to do what is right for themselves and our shared planet.  

 

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