{"id":14477,"date":"2013-07-06T20:40:28","date_gmt":"2013-07-07T04:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/?p=14477"},"modified":"2013-07-06T20:40:28","modified_gmt":"2013-07-07T04:40:28","slug":"visitors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/2013\/07\/06\/visitors\/","title":{"rendered":"Visitors!"},"content":{"rendered":"

We had a couple visit us this evening, something of a rarity these days.<\/p>\n

We had never met them before today, but Joseph and Eileen are friends of a friend of my mom’s whom she helped facilitate adoptions for of three siblings from Hungary a few years back.<\/p>\n

They both had interesting stories of their own. Joseph was born in Iraq and his family emigrated when he was very young, although he still speaks with a slight accent. He served in the military with Steve Russell, my mom’s friend, in Iraq. Steve was the colonel in charge of the battalion that captured Saddam Hussein<\/a> in Tikrit in 2003.<\/p>\n

Eileen worked as a computer programmer in the mid 60s at MIT as part of the Apollo program. I believe she was involved with the communications that went back and forth between the astronauts and NASA.<\/p>\n

Interesting couple. He talked quite a bit, she hardly at all until I started asking her about her programming days.<\/p>\n

My mother was just happy to be socializing with other human beings.<\/p>\n

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We had a couple visit us this evening, something of a rarity these days. We had never met them before today, but Joseph and Eileen are friends of a friend of my mom’s whom she helped facilitate adoptions for of three siblings from Hungary a few years back. They both had interesting stories of their … <\/p>\n

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