[dfwgator]

I do not think Jim McKay was thinking about a trip. I suspect there was a lot more emotion from Jim McKay when he said that.

Absolutely. He was struggling to keep it together when he said it. As a young kid, that event is why to this day I am staunchly pro-Israel.

[JohnBovenmyer]

1972 should have been remembered as the Mark Spitz Olympics, but instead it is most remembered for the terrorists and for the basketball final refs. Mossad got the former eventually, CIA never tried for the latter.