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 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 in Tikrit in 2003.
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.
Interesting couple. He talked quite a bit, she hardly at all until I started asking her about her programming days.
My mother was just happy to be socializing with other human beings.
