Y'all are very sweet.  I am as it happens still twenty five hours and
thirty one minutes short of sexegenarianism, but I appreciate the
sentiments.  As of tomorrow 1252 EST (I was born in the former Naval
Hospital, now condominia, in Chelsea Mass; so the time zone is the
same as on the birth certificate) you may expect crotchety
behavior.  And may I say that I'm entitled - below I quote the night
letter (wouldn't waste a telegram) the Navy sent my father all of two
miles away in Charlestown Shipyard.  I seem to have mislaid it, so
I'll paraphrase:

TO: LT PETER G BEIERL, USS [I forget - a destroyer]
FROM: NAVY DEPARTMENT

FRANCES E BEIERL DELIVERED OF YOUR CHILD USNH CHELSEA MASS AT 1252
THIS DAY 5 MARCH 1951 STOP.  MOTHER AND DAUGHTER DOING WELL STOP.  ENDS.

Yours,
David
ps - Dad had already heard from the neighbor, so he was a mite
confused as well.