Today is the 40th anniversary of the Miracle on Ice

[Aristus]

3. I'll never forget where I was when I heard the news.

We got it on the overnights, I remember that I didn't see it live. And we were so happy. It was a great day for the country. We went to church later where a prayer of thanks was offered for the victory.

My father, always eager to spoil everyone's good time, told me that the Soviet players would probably be thrown into prison when they got home; tortured or worse; their families would be threatened, or have any government privileges they enjoyed taken away because of the USSR's humiliating loss in the Olympics. None of that actually happened, I think, but my Dad never missed an opportunity to badmouth the Soviet Union. He was a real gung-ho Cold Warrior...