1992 Miracle Yearbook

Solar Eclipse On July 11, 1991, the moon slipped overthesun in the celestial ceremony ofthe eclipse,turning day into nightforthousandsof viewers and scientists. About500astronomers and tens of thousands of tourists came to see the moon line up between the sun and Earth and plunge into darkness a 160-mile- wideswathstretchingfrom Hawaii to Mexico's Baja Peninsula, central and southern Mexico,Central America, Colombia and Brazil. 104 Student Life I Operation Welcome Home DesertStormCommander General H. Norman Schwarzkopfgaveathumbs up to the crowd as he made his way up Broadway dur- ing New York's Operation Welcome Home ticker tape parade in June 1991. Schwarzkopf, General Colin Powell and Defense SecretaryDickCheney were the grand marshals ofthe New Yorkparade,withover600,000 people turning outto welcome the soldiers home. More than 1 million peopleattendedawel- come home parade May 19 in Hollywood, and an estimated 800,000 turned outfor the pa- rade in Washington. "U.S.A.! U.S.A.!" the flag- waving crowd chanted during a half-hour of nighttime fire- works over the East River in New York City. The $1 mil- lion display was accompanied bytheNew YorkPopsOrches- tra. A teary-eyed Korean War veteran said, "These young boys put their lives on the line and now they're getting their rewards." by Associated Press