As Jerry Heidenreich and I went to say goodbye to Mark
he was "sequestered".... but was sitting on the balcony out in the "open"
the last thing Jerry said to Mark, was something about his gold medals ?
and Mark turns to us and says....
"Gee ... I guess this makes me more famous than Rafer Johnson" ?
Jerry laughed and replied...
"IT sure DOES" ! and we left for downtown Munich
where Jerry's girlfriend and 2 female cousins had rented an apartment and a WV Kombi Van for the summer...we were "set" to cruise around Europe for 2 weeks...with $ 280 each in US dollars in our pockets...with..."babes" !
that morning Jerry and I got up at 9 AM....and went down to "harrass" the guy
on the balcony...with the white hood...we ARE "visible" just behind the poor German Blue squad.. .holding back the crowd... he's even waving a machine gun like he's gonna shoot us all,..but ... everybody's "attitude" was...get the F outta here... you jerks...so at 9:20 AM ... we got bored and went to breakfast
Bud Greenspan in HIS movie ... not only "nailed" the actual PLACE at the fence where we went over the wall with the terrorists ..
in the opening of Spielberg's ... "MUNICH" ... I AM theguy...
mentioning the HofBrauHaus ...
it was exactly 2:37 AM
Jerry is the other one...getting out of the taxi with me
but NOT that fence....!
we just thought they were "clever" Israelis...
in the dorm next to the US...
so we decided to go over the fence WITH them ...
rather than face...the long walk from the front gate
he and I each handled one of the black PUMA bags..nearly empty
we were a little "surprised" when we turned left to go into the US dorm..and they waved and kept walking ... instead of turning right into the Israeli dorm...
they went on to the East German dorms...where they got the machine guns
Bud also has an interview with an Olympian who "mentions" ..the "attitude" we ALL had....NOBODY..took them "seriously" as we heard ... like 20 "versions" about what was going on...and just wanted them...to LEAVE ...
that's WHY...Jerry and I went down..."penetrated the crowd...got right up front....
shouting "obscenities" as well..then got bored...and were hungry...so we went to eat....
at breakfast I learned we could CA$H IN our return plane tiickets for something like $280...so we DID..."immediately"
the Swim team was supposed to go to Regensberg to do a "show".....
instead Jerry and I were out the front gate.....
by 10: 45 or so....
it wasn't until the next day...about 10:30 or so...
on the way to Hamburg..
that I turned on the radio in the Hertz VW Kombi van....
that we learned what had happened.....
dead silence ...for 20 minutes...as we drove...ON
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