There aren’t many occasions when I can tell you exactly what I was doing at a given moment 50 years ago, but the night of Feb. 25, 1964 is one those rare times. On that night, I was gathered with a group of my buddies in a barracks at Lackland Air Force Base, Texas, where we were nearing the end of basic training.

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