Fri Sep 7, 2012, 04:27 PM
Sea burial for Armstrong, Navy man to end
Source: Cincinnati Enquirer
Neil Armstrong, a traditional Navy man to the end, will be buried at sea. His colleagues from the Gemini and Apollo space programs had speculated about where Armstrong might go to rest. Some thought near his hometown in Wapakoneta, Ohio, others thought perhaps closer to his home in the Cincinnati suburb of Indian Hill, where he spent the last decades of his life. Instead, the first man to set foot on the moon wanted a traditional burial from the side of a ship. “Well, he’s a Navy man,” said fellow astronaut and longtime friend Jim Lovell. Armstrong’s Navy career began in 1947, when he enlisted in the Naval ROTC and went to college. By 1950, at the age of 20, he was stationed on the USS Essex, about 100 miles off of Wonsan Bay in the Sea of Japan. He flew 78 combat missions, and after each of them he would fly back over the water toward the safety of the Essex. Read more: http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20120906/NEWS/309060150/Sea-burial-Armstrong-Navy-man-end?odyssey=mod|mostview 
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 Sea burial for Armstrong, Navy man to end (Original post) |
Blue_Tires | Sep 2012 | OP |
| hlthe2b | Sep 2012 | #1 | |
| 4th law of robotics | Sep 2012 | #5 | |
| Missycim | Sep 2012 | #18 | |
| WinstonSmith4740 | Sep 2012 | #19 | |
| Missycim | Sep 2012 | #21 | |
| WinstonSmith4740 | Sep 2012 | #22 | |
| Missycim | Sep 2012 | #23 | |
| Richard D | Sep 2012 | #27 | |
| renate | Sep 2012 | #2 | |
| Ian David | Sep 2012 | #3 | |
| BlueJazz | Sep 2012 | #6 | |
| formercia | Sep 2012 | #4 | |
| Confusious | Sep 2012 | #9 | |
| Odin2005 | Sep 2012 | #10 | |
| WinstonSmith4740 | Sep 2012 | #20 | |
| Moondog | Sep 2012 | #7 | |
| DeSwiss | Sep 2012 | #8 | |
| Odin2005 | Sep 2012 | #11 | |
| MichiganVote | Sep 2012 | #12 | |
| a geek named Bob | Sep 2012 | #26 | |
| DemoTex | Sep 2012 | #13 | |
| Adenoid_Hynkel | Sep 2012 | #14 | |
| blackspade | Sep 2012 | #15 | |
| Bette Noir | Sep 2012 | #16 | |
| tabasco | Sep 2012 | #17 | |
| rachel1 | Sep 2012 | #24 | |
| daleo | Sep 2012 | #25 |
Response to Blue_Tires (Original post)
Fri Sep 7, 2012, 04:30 PM
hlthe2b (47,242 posts)
1. I'd sort of hoped they'd send his ashes up in on a future space mission....
Response to Missycim (Reply #21)
Sat Sep 8, 2012, 02:10 PM
22. Thanks!
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I'm so glad to hear that! Very, very cool.
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Response to Blue_Tires (Original post)
Fri Sep 7, 2012, 04:34 PM
Ian David (68,414 posts)
3. I would have asked to have my head planted on a stake on the Moon. n/t
Response to Blue_Tires (Original post)
Fri Sep 7, 2012, 04:52 PM
formercia (18,123 posts)
4. Perhaps it was to join his fellow Aviators
Response to formercia (Reply #4)
Fri Sep 7, 2012, 08:00 PM
9. He probably didn't want his grave to become a shrine
Response to Blue_Tires (Original post)
Fri Sep 7, 2012, 06:14 PM
Moondog (4,665 posts)
7. Safe journey Neil -
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Response to Blue_Tires (Original post)
Fri Sep 7, 2012, 06:19 PM
8. K&R
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''There are great ideas undiscovered. Breakthroughs available to those who can remove one of truth's protective layers. For the places to go beyond belief. For there, lies human destiny.''
~Neil Armstrong On the Occasion of the 25th Anniversary of Apollo Eleven The White House, July 20, 1994  - We are trying to remove those ''protective layers,'' Neil. A safe voyage to you sir..... |
Response to Odin2005 (Reply #11)
Fri Sep 7, 2012, 10:30 PM
12. Yup. Some people just don't get it. Thank you Neil. We loved you.
Response to Blue_Tires (Original post)
Fri Sep 7, 2012, 10:33 PM
DemoTex (21,988 posts)
13. The Navy Hymn for Neil Armstrong
Response to Blue_Tires (Original post)
Fri Sep 7, 2012, 11:40 PM
14. Hope they keep the location a secret
Response to Blue_Tires (Original post)
Sat Sep 8, 2012, 12:46 AM
15. Honestly I really like the idea.
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I think it would be quite cool to be buried at sea.
My grandfather was a member of the Neptune society and his ashes were buried at sea. I had a miniature of a Viking that I painted sent to the bottom with him, my way of a grave offering I suppose. Anyway, I think it would be pretty cool to be dropped w/ weights to the bottom of some marine trench. Who knows what would happen? I could become a fossil, seen a million years later, or perhaps I could be dragged down into the mantle and truly return to the earth. 
And the carbon that I'm based on gets sequestered either way! If we buried everyone this way we could free up a lot of land and have a good shot of actually showing up in the fossil record.....  |
Response to Blue_Tires (Original post)
Sat Sep 8, 2012, 01:25 AM
16. I'm from a Navy family, and always considered burial at sea to be perfectly respectable.
Response to Blue_Tires (Original post)
Sat Sep 8, 2012, 09:02 AM
17. It's difficult to put into words
Response to Blue_Tires (Original post)
Sat Sep 8, 2012, 02:32 PM
24. It's saddening to have read that such a great man
Response to Blue_Tires (Original post)
Sat Sep 8, 2012, 03:06 PM
daleo (19,931 posts)
25. I looked at the moon through my telescope last night
