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The Summer of '69: A season that shook the world
From the moon to the Mets, and Vietnam to Woodstock, what a time it was
By any measure, the summer of 1969 was extraordinary, in the world, across the nation, and on Long Island. It was a summer of remarkable achievement, as the U.S. space program won the race to the moon, with help from Long Island's Grumman engineers, who built the lunar module Eagle.
The Mets marched to a World Series victory that even their most avid fans couldn't have predicted. Theirs followed...
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