Neil Armstrong, first man on the moon, dies

[G R 'Scott' Cundiff]

Do you remember that Sunday evening?

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[Marsha Lynn]

Do you remember that Sunday evening?

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Yes, I do. An unforgettable moment.

[Jim Chabot]

Like it was yesterday! I still have my LEM tie clip!



At the time, my dad worked for Texas Instruments. We built the switches and circuit breakers for the mission, right here in Attleboro, MA. I still have a few LEM switches to go with the tie clip.

I was all of eleven years old!

[G R 'Scott' Cundiff]

Jackie and I were part of a program at Olivet called "Lay ministry." We went out on weekends to help churches with door-to-door canvasing, special children's events, and other types of ministry. Some of us who stayed around the campus in the summers liked it so much that we kept doing it in the summers, doing youth revivals, special services, and the like. Jackie and I were engaged to be married and she came along that weekend. The weekend of July 20, 1969 we were in Pekin, IL doing a youth revival. After church we all went to the parsonage to watch the big event on their black & white TV.

[John Reilly]

I was in high school and remember that the great America challenge of JFK had been fulfilled.

[Jim Poteet]

I was in Mexico City playing basketball on a US Christian team called Venture for Victory. We watched the moon landing in our hotel lobby on a terrible black & white set with Spanish commentary. We did not know what Neil Armstrong said as he stepped down on the moon until later that night.

[Bill Morrison]

I remember it well: it was the summer between my high school graduation and entering Olivet as a freshman. My family gathered around a small B&W TV in my bedroom and watched.
As thrilling as that was, I was even more impressed on Christmas Eve 1968 when the Apollo 8 astronauts circled the moon and greeted us back on earth by taking turns reading from Genesis chapter 1. This was a big step in my growing realization that the study of science was an endeavor worthy of a Christian devoting their life to, especially when one got their priorities straight and acknowledged the Creator first and let science have its proper place in explaining and understanding His work.

BILL

[Dennis M. Scott]

I was traveling that summer in a quartet for Mount Vernon. We stopped at the home of a faculty member in Columbus, and caught the telecast. It seemed like we were watching something as significant as Columbus discovering America. Perhaps in some ways, we were.

[Jim Franklin]

I was 32 and in my Masters in Geography program at the University of Idaho and our Dept. Chairman had declared no classes for us on Monday, the day after to make sure we all had a more than adequate time frame to watch the telecast. We had planned that weekend to drive back to our previous place of residence, Connell, Wa.. to attend the funeral on Saturday of one of the young church members who had been killed in Vietnam. So on Sunday evening while the faithful church members attended Sunday evening services my host and I stayed home and watched the telecast. I would not have dared to return to the U of I and my classes and classmates without having watched the telecast and I even felt forgiven by the Lord for doing so.

[Jean Johnson]

I was a young woman who had finished a year of language study at Yonsei University in Seoul, Korea. I don't recall now why I was "down country" in a city called Kwangju, but I think I was with a group of expats. I don't remember much about the occasion, but we watched the moon landing on a TV which had a very grainy, fuzzy picture.

[David Graham]

I was fourteen when that great but humble man stepped out upon the moon, and of all the many images I've seen on television, that one image of him stepping down from the ladder will (I think) stay with me the most.

And yet, I agree with him, when he says that it was amongst the least significant moments of that whole adventure. To take (in today's terms) flimsey low tech space vehicle modules across 250,000 miles of empty space, land on a rock with a very limited amount of fuel (They had 11 seconds worth left), take off again, reconnect with the return vehicle and return to the earth and splash down in the Pacific Ocean.... is an incredible feat that would have taken nerves of steel, a great deal of competence (and confidence) and a little bit of luck.

Yet in spite of this great achievement, he thereafter remained quite an approachable ordinary bloke who found a life beyond the fame of space exploration..... and we have to applaud him for that also. I hope the US Government gives him a state funeral.

[Eric Buell]

I grew up in Warren County, Ohio and worked (college summer job) at our county airport where Mr. Armstrong kept his Beech Baron. I fueled his plane and worked on his farm a few times that summer. The one thing my boss told me was to never, ever ask Mr. Armstrong about the moon. We talked about his farm, cattle, his constantly braying donkeys, and flying - but never about the moon - it about killed me not to ask but I respected his desire to live as normal a life as he could.

He was as down to earth as any other farmer in our little corner of heaven in Southwest Ohio - if you didn't know who he was you never would have imagined that he was actually a national (I would even say a global - I'm biased) hero.

[Gina Stevenson]

Wow, what a privileged summer job!

Thanks, Eric.

ETA: Agreed, it would be hard spending as much time as it sounds like you did with him without mentioning the moon . . . so many questions . . . unanswered!

[Hans Deventer]

he was actually a national (I would even say a global - I'm biased) hero.

Well, his departing was front page news in my local newspaper here in Dordrecht, Netherlands. You might not be so biased.

[Ryan Scott]

Allegedly.

[Gina Stevenson]

Allegedly.

Ryan! Allegedly the moon, or allegedly the first? (have heard re conspiracy theories, how it was staged somewhere ... really!?)

[Ryan Scott]

Either way. He was allegedly the first man on the moon... or he's allegedly dead.

I figure, if he really was the first man on the moon, chances are he might also be immortal.

[Craig Laughlin]

I grew up in Warren County, Ohio and worked (college summer job) at our county airport where Mr. Armstrong kept his Beech Baron. I fueled his plane and worked on his farm a few times that summer. The one thing my boss told me was to never, ever ask Mr. Armstrong about the moon. We talked about his farm, cattle, his constantly braying donkeys, and flying - but never about the moon - it about killed me not to ask but I respected his desire to live as normal a life as he could.

He was as down to earth as any other farmer in our little corner of heaven in Southwest Ohio - if you didn't know who he was you never would have imagined that he was actually a national (I would even say a global - I'm biased) hero.

My, doesn't the moon look beautiful tonight Mr. Armstrong? Wasn't that a fantastic full moon we had last night Mr. Armstrong? Good thing it was you and not me, I would have got fired.

[Jim Franklin]

Received a forward from my sister in law a bit ago that tells of Buzz Aldrin celebrating communion on the moon. Wished I could provide the link.

[Cynthia Prentice]

I've posted about it before but my mom was working the switchboard at Channel 2 KPRC Houston when Neil Armstrong took that giant leap. KPRC is the TV station that sent the moon feed out to the entire nation. She got America's reaction first hand as they called in....one woman crying because she thought the world was coming to an end....others in awe. I wish she had written it all down.

[Judy Hamilton]

I was traveling that summer in a quartet for Mount Vernon. We stopped at the home of a faculty member in Columbus, and caught the telecast. It seemed like we were watching something as significant as Columbus discovering America. Perhaps in some ways, we were.

WE were watching al of us AT THE SAME TIME!!! this awesome feat.. I was still in the Army Nurse Corp serving at Fitzsimmons Army Hospital.. I was working the Orthopedic ward, where most of the guys were limb amputees and were not at a place in their healing they could ambulate so I recall
a combat patient telling me, asking me

"Mamn will you please go outside and look up and see if the moon is really there??
A man walking on the MOON! If that happened then for sure I will walk again!!!




Neil Armstrong influence had a near miracle power that ignited a wee bit of confidence and helped the soldiers who lost their leg or legs to give life a try,
every time they looked at the moon, they would say" IF he can walk on the moon...then I CAN WALK! RIGHT HERE!!! You guys (nurses,PT,and fellow Patients)
are my lifting pad, to get me out of this bed and walk back into my life!

[Judy Hamilton]

Either way. He was allegedly the first man on the moon... or he's allegedly dead.

I figure, if he really was the first man on the moon, chances are he might also be immortal.

I am confused with you response Ryan..not wanting to take the words out of your mouth..you seem to be saying that
Neil Armstrong Giant Step For Mankind walk on the moon
is only a fabricated legend ????? will you please explain your comment??

Thanks..Judy

[Jim Franklin]

The old sailor is to be buried at sea according to the USA Today report.