Col Gail Halvorsen (The Candy Bomber) describes why and how his mission to bring candy to the children of Berlin in 1948 was hatched. It started with "two sticks of gum." The assembled crowd was to celebrate the the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall in San Antonio at the Beethoven Mannerchor Hall.
To get the full story read Andrei Cherny's historical biography : The Candy Bombers: The Untold Story of the Berlin Airlift and America's Finest Hour.
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