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Where were you during the moon landing???

GDViking said:
Provided you are old enough to remember the moon landing did you watch it, and if so where?

For me it was my fifth birthday and I could not understand why nobody was paying attention to me.

My dad and my uncle's had got a keg and connected a couple extension cords in order to bring the TV out to the edge of a hill In our yard in order to be able to look at the moon and the TV at the same time.

After playing with my brand new Spirograph for a while by myself, I finally got over my pity trip and went out to join my family watching history being made...
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Summer of love...and 19 years old.
Ah, the memories, mostly all over the moon ;)
 
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trixare4kids said:
Summer of love...and 19 years old.
Ah, the memories, mostly all over the moon ;)
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Yeah if I was 19 in 69 the odds of me being here now would be incredibly slim...

Worked out well though, the love of my life and the mother of my children was born that year...
 
ecofarm said:
My friends tell me, "don't tell people you don't like children, they'll think you're evil".
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Well, there are worse things to be called. I don’t like kids, either. Only mine. Put me in a place with a bunch of noisy, screaming, sticky kids and I’ll be clawing at the door in a matter of minutes.
 
GDViking said:
Provided you are old enough to remember the moon landing did you watch it, and if so where?

For me it was my fifth birthday and I could not understand why nobody was paying attention to me.

My dad and my uncle's had got a keg and connected a couple extension cords in order to bring the TV out to the edge of a hill In our yard in order to be able to look at the moon and the TV at the same time.

After playing with my brand new Spirograph for a while by myself, I finally got over my pity trip and went out to join my family watching history being made...
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I wasnt even a sperm back then. Born years later.
 
I was busy not existing. It's tiring work you know.
 
Vietnam, in the Brown Water Navy, standing on deck of LST821 looking at the moon.
 
GDViking said:
Provided you are old enough to remember the moon landing did you watch it, and if so where?

For me it was my fifth birthday and I could not understand why nobody was paying attention to me.

My dad and my uncle's had got a keg and connected a couple extension cords in order to bring the TV out to the edge of a hill In our yard in order to be able to look at the moon and the TV at the same time.

After playing with my brand new Spirograph for a while by myself, I finally got over my pity trip and went out to join my family watching history being made...
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sitting in front of the tv on the floor....glued as an 8 year old...as my mom and dad tried to keep all 5 of us kids quiet so they could hear what was being said

a day i will never forget

my father had just gotten home from his second stint in viet nam and was recovering...this time from a shrapnel wound to his shoulder

one of the rare times the whole family was together
 
GDViking said:
Provided you are old enough to remember the moon landing did you watch it, and if so where?

For me it was my fifth birthday and I could not understand why nobody was paying attention to me.

My dad and my uncle's had got a keg and connected a couple extension cords in order to bring the TV out to the edge of a hill In our yard in order to be able to look at the moon and the TV at the same time.

After playing with my brand new Spirograph for a while by myself, I finally got over my pity trip and went out to join my family watching history being made...
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On a pier in France.
 
SMTA said:
On a pier in France.
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Never been to France as far as I know, I may have flown over it a time or two.

They really never let us know where we were, just what we were supposed to do...
 
The really cool thing to remember tonight is that fifty years ago the american flag was planted on the moon!!!
 
GDViking said:
Never been to France as far as I know, I may have flown over it a time or two.

They really never let us know where we were, just what we were supposed to do...
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I was a kid and couldn't wait to get home.
 
Soon to start my sophomore year in high school. I remember it well.
 
hanger4 said:
Soon to start my sophomore year in high school. I remember it well.
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It was special night for those of us that were old enough to remember.

It may have been the most world changing event since Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Only this time we proved technology could be used for good.

I am happy to be able to remember that night, and I hope others that were paying attention that night to chime in.
 
GDViking said:
It was special night for those of us that were old enough to remember.

It may have been the most world changing event since Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Only this time we proved technology could be used for good.

I am happy to be able to remember that night, and I hope others that were paying attention that night to chime in.
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It was a special time. I and my mother watched the landing that night. She passed a few months ago (she was 99 1/2). Watching some of the anniversary programming brings back fond memories that make me smile.
 
One thing that this thread did for me, because of the push of the remembrance of the moon landing was to impel me to see if a book I had gotten in an auction (the publishers estate sale) was a first edition or not. .. it one one of many books i got in box lots. In it, was the book 'LIFTOFF: by Michael Collins. When I went to see if it was a first edition or not, I found it had been inscribed and signed by Michael Collins to the publishers of the book. Not bad for a 2 buck purchase.
 
GDViking said:
Provided you are old enough to remember the moon landing did you watch it, and if so where?

For me it was my fifth birthday and I could not understand why nobody was paying attention to me.

My dad and my uncle's had got a keg and connected a couple extension cords in order to bring the TV out to the edge of a hill In our yard in order to be able to look at the moon and the TV at the same time.

After playing with my brand new Spirograph for a while by myself, I finally got over my pity trip and went out to join my family watching history being made...
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Southeast Asia, LZ Marylou, Central Highlands of Vietnam.
 
GDViking said:
Provided you are old enough to remember the moon landing did you watch it, and if so where?

For me it was my fifth birthday and I could not understand why nobody was paying attention to me.

My dad and my uncle's had got a keg and connected a couple extension cords in order to bring the TV out to the edge of a hill In our yard in order to be able to look at the moon and the TV at the same time.

After playing with my brand new Spirograph for a while by myself, I finally got over my pity trip and went out to join my family watching history being made...
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I was not quite 16 yet. I watched it at my dad's work office. I remember being very impatient for them to finally exit the lunar module.
 
I was 1 year, 9 months old when they landed on the moon. So obviously I was too young to remember it. By that age, I had grown some teeth, grown some hair, written my first 4 experimental-rock albums, free climbed El Capitan, published 14 scholarly papers, navigated the entire Grand Canyon section of the Colorado river in my own canoe, that I constructed from a hollowed out Saguaro cactus, just after finishing 1 tour of duty in 'Nam, where I captured general Vo Nguyen Giap, after getting lost deep in north Vietnamese territory when I walked into the jungle to relieve myself, having accidentally taken a wrong turn at the official pee-tree on the way back to base. But I had not yet learned to type shorter sentences, and to use more periods and less commas. But obviously I've since rectified those shortcomings in my writing skills!

But I was just too young to recall the moon landing.
 
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GDViking said:
Provided you are old enough to remember the moon landing did you watch it, and if so where?

For me it was my fifth birthday and I could not understand why nobody was paying attention to me.

My dad and my uncle's had got a keg and connected a couple extension cords in order to bring the TV out to the edge of a hill In our yard in order to be able to look at the moon and the TV at the same time.

After playing with my brand new Spirograph for a while by myself, I finally got over my pity trip and went out to join my family watching history being made...
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GDViking:

I was 9 years old and sat on the floor of the TV room watching the landing and later the descent to the lunar surface by Armstrong and Aldrin. To my left was a very inaccurate model of a lunar landing module and to my right was an almost meter-long Saturn 5 rocket model and ahead of me was a large consol B&W TV. I was riveted to the TV for several days in July of 1969 subsisting on bowls of cereal as were my friends and family. It was mesmerising and exhilarating. In that moment I thought America was at its best and that NASA was amazing. Would that it could become so exalted again today or in the near future.

Thank you America for catching my dreams and making them real in the Summer of 69.

Cheers.
Evilroddy.
 
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UtahBill said:
Vietnam, in the Brown Water Navy, standing on deck of LST821 looking at the moon.
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The "brown water navy", huh? That means you spent lots of time on boats in the rivers and river deltas of Vietnam.... Although you specified an "LST", maybe you spent some time in 'swift boats' as well. Are you John Kerry?
 
ModerationNow! said:
The "brown water navy", huh? That means you spent lots of time on boats in the rivers and river deltas of Vietnam.... Although you specified an "LST", maybe you spent some time in 'swift boats' as well. Are you John Kerry?
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LST 821 USS Harnett Cty. was an WWII tank landing ship. It was converted to serve as a repair ship for the PBR's and refueling/rearming location for Huey gunships. Google Harnett Cty. LST821 and can read its history. We refurbished it in Japan, turned it over to South Vietnam, they took it to the Philipine Islands where it was rammed onto a reef where it now serves to irritate the Chinese. It is a rusty hulk now, but last I heard it still serves...a few PI marines still live on it. They call it Sierra Madre...

Nope, not John Kerry, never met him...
 
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I watched it on TV at home when I was 14.
 
I was stationed at the Camp Pendleton Marine Base in California, and watched the moon landing from my barracks room.
 
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