Most days, the Games make me smile. They make me a tad ethnocentric too, as my grins come mostly from remembering America's glory--like the Miracle on Ice and Wilma Rudolph's triumph over polio and Jesse Owens kicking Nazi ass.
At some moment when the Olympics again enthrall the world, however, my mind sobers as it turns to Munich.
At the 1972 Games, Arab terrorists killed 11 Israeli athletes and coaches.
Here's ABC sportscaster Jim McKay, who brought the horrible news to Americans with the words, "they're all gone."
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