9:05
-LRB- `` I think it 's a fine law ... It 's too bad they could n't have shown similar humanity toward the war mothers of World War II . '' -RRB- * * * * * It was late in the afternoon by the time the TV crew got everything repacked into their cars and trucks and made their departure . Martha fixed herself a light supper , then donned an old suede jacket of Terry 's and went out into the garden to wait for the sun to go down . According to the time table the general had outlined in his first telegram , Terry 's first Tuesday night passage was n't due to occur till 9:05 . But it seemed only right that she should be outside when the stars started to come out . Presently they did , and she watched them wink on , one by one , in the deepening darkness of the sky . She 'd never been much of a one for the stars ; most of her life she 'd been much too busy on Earth to bother with things celestial .