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Monday, July 20, 2015

In Those Days There Were Giants...

The crew of Apollo 11, Armstrong, Collins, Aldrin
NASA Photo
Forty-six years ago.

 Lest we forget...


Vietnam aside, I had hope for the future back then.

 I still do, just not as much.
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8 comments:

  1. Rev. PaulJuly 20, 2015 at 8:27 PM

    We'll still have a future - but it's a lot closer to the scenario spelled out in the Book of Revelation than I once thought it would be.

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  2. SCOTTtheBADGERJuly 21, 2015 at 12:01 AM

    When I remember what NASA seemed to have promised me back then, when I was 7, I feel so cheated by what has been delivered.

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    1. OldAFSargeJuly 21, 2015 at 5:15 AM

      Make no mistake, we have been cheated. By the short-sighted and the fools.

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  3. Well Seasoned FoolJuly 21, 2015 at 4:01 AM

    Watched that event on a small TV in the break room for Braniff employees at Denver Stapleton airport. The viewer ranged from pilots, cabin attendants, mechanics, bag smashers and agents. Lots of jokes about a Russian guiding them in. I think all of us there were feeling pride and awe. Certainly, if a flight had come into the gate area then, no one would have worked it until the landing was over. That was a cynical group that suddenly broke out in applause.

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    1. OldAFSargeJuly 21, 2015 at 5:14 AM

      I remember watching that, the awe at the accomplishment is still in me.

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  4. PrairieAdventureJuly 21, 2015 at 1:01 PM

    Days of miracles and wonder.

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