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In the discussion thread: Where were you when Neil Armstrong stepped off that ladder on to the Moon? [View all]

Sat Aug 25, 2012, 04:06 PM

64. In my grandparents' living room in Ft Collins, CO. With the whole family,

eyes glued to a very grainy black and white TV screen, barely able to understand the radio transmissions for the static.

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Where were you when Neil Armstrong stepped off that ladder on to the Moon? [View all]	Faygo Kid	Aug 2012	OP
This message was self-deleted by its author	kickysnana	Aug 2012	#1
I thought the landing was on a Sunday?	louis-t	Aug 2012	#45
July 20. 1969, WAS a Sunday.	WinkyDink	Aug 2012	#131
On vacation in Nevada.	ChazII	Aug 2012	#118
In class in July? Unh hunh	Bernardo de La Paz	Aug 2012	#148
This message was self-deleted by its author	Gormy Cuss	Aug 2012	#152
This message was self-deleted by its author	kickysnana	Aug 2012	#179
Remember it very, very clearly.	cbayer	Aug 2012	#2
At home, glued to the TV. One small step -	pinto	Aug 2012	#3
Sitting in the living room of my Grandmother's house trying to understand why everybody	Egalitarian Thug	Aug 2012	#4
I was on the couch, extremely pregnant, in our beach apartment at the Jersey Shore..n/t	monmouth	Aug 2012	#5
Oh, I was pregnant too!	PatSeg	Aug 2012	#89
It was an exciting time. My sons were 7 and 8 years old and just in awe...n/t	monmouth	Aug 2012	#90
It was an exciting time	PatSeg	Aug 2012	#97
Just like my mom	loyalsister	Aug 2012	#216
Half a block off Mack Ave. On Detroit's east side.	Motown_Johnny	Aug 2012	#6
I'm an East Sider too.	Faygo Kid	Aug 2012	#9
I went to driver's ed at Denby and to Notre Dame High, right next to Eastland	Motown_Johnny	Aug 2012	#40
Me, too, driver's ed at Denby, on that stupid track.	Faygo Kid	Aug 2012	#67
Denby was my high school	MrScorpio	Aug 2012	#75
Still alive! Mom worked there from @1960-1982. You may recall her.	Faygo Kid	Aug 2012	#79
I graduated in '79, so we were there at the same time	MrScorpio	Aug 2012	#94
Your mom met Eleanor Roosevelt?	Bertha Venation	Aug 2012	#142
Eleanor Roosevelt met my Mom.	Faygo Kid	Aug 2012	#162
That is so cool!!	Bertha Venation	Aug 2012	#171
My mother's womb	gollygee	Aug 2012	#7
I have you beat: I was split between an ovary and a testicle	Occulus	Aug 2012	#74
This is my very first memory of an historical moment	Proud Public Servant	Aug 2012	#8
Also glued to the TV	flor-de-jasmim	Aug 2012	#10
Nine months old. No memory of it...	Aristus	Aug 2012	#11
PRAB, RVN	HubertHeaver	Aug 2012	#12
We were in Japan	enlightenment	Aug 2012	#61
Long Binh, Vietnam	pinboy3niner	Aug 2012	#77
Yup. On an all-expense-paid year-long tour of Southeast Asia.	TahitiNut	Aug 2012	#114
All that...	pinboy3niner	Aug 2012	#120
And all the C-rats you could eat	glacierbay	Aug 2012	#125
On the top of a bunker looking up at the moon in awe N/T	IBEWVET	Aug 2012	#156
Welcome to DU, brother	pinboy3niner	Aug 2012	#158
I gotta say, the skies WERE awesome.	TahitiNut	Aug 2012	#218
I was 20 and watching it over Grandma's house	HockeyMom	Aug 2012	#13
Finally, a topic that makes me feel young	CabCurious	Aug 2012	#14
A motel lobby somewhere on the way to do an antique show with my mother..	Fumesucker	Aug 2012	#15
Saw it on TV	Mr.Bill	Aug 2012	#16
Sitting criss-cross-applesauce on the floor in Mrs. Maclary's 1st grade class.	woodsprite	Aug 2012	#17
I bet you are remembering the liftoff.	louis-t	Aug 2012	#54
In 1st Grade class in July? ?	Bernardo de La Paz	Aug 2012	#149
17-year-old salesclerk at a W.T. Grants store in Pompton Lakes, NJ	LiberalEsto	Aug 2012	#18
(personal aside) My uncle was a mathematician / physicist who worked with a Lincoln Lab team.	pinto	Aug 2012	#19
Watching with my family & granddad who remembered hearing about the Wright brothers flight	vademocrat	Aug 2012	#20
my mother in law's house	Celebration	Aug 2012	#21
in family room with hubby - woke up three week old son	elfin	Aug 2012	#22
Chattanooga, TN. I was six years old. I will never forget it. RIP Mr. Armstrong. nt.	CottonBear	Aug 2012	#23
At home watching it on TV like everyone else.	Cleita	Aug 2012	#24
Sitting in a school room auditorium	zappaman	Aug 2012	#25
It was a SUNDAY.	WinkyDink	Aug 2012	#132
A Sunday in July. Never forget what?	Bernardo de La Paz	Aug 2012	#151
you sure that wasn't for Apollo 13?	eShirl	Aug 2012	#209
We were having a family picnic. I told my niece this was something she could tell her grandchildren.	libinnyandia	Aug 2012	#26
sitting on the living room floor, glued to the tv, and wishing I were there	niyad	Aug 2012	#27
2:56 UTC July 21, 1969. How were so many kids in school in the middle of the night?	Bernardo de La Paz	Aug 2012	#28
Thought I remembered it being daylight.	HubertHeaver	Aug 2012	#42
I just looked it up -- they landed at 4 - something EDT, that must be what	gateley	Aug 2012	#52
They landed in the afternoon but it was hours before they got out.	louis-t	Aug 2012	#59
Yeah, and now I'm thinking my memory is of the landing, not Armstrong's	gateley	Aug 2012	#76
Yeah, I recall it being at night	Lifelong Protester	Aug 2012	#53
I believe they are remembering the liftoff on Wed.	louis-t	Aug 2012	#57
people's memories are funny, aren't they?	graham4anything	Aug 2012	#66
That was first step.	HubertHeaver	Aug 2012	#214
Yeah, all I remember about it was being allowed to get up in what seemed to be the middle of the	treestar	Aug 2012	#215
Sitting in the living room with my dad . . .	fleur-de-lisa	Aug 2012	#29
I and all the school were in the library glued to the tv.	lunatica	Aug 2012	#30
It was a SUNDAY.	WinkyDink	Aug 2012	#134
You're right!	lunatica	Aug 2012	#138
My brother worked for GE/NASA at the time and on all the Apollo missions. He was in quality control.	juajen	Aug 2012	#176
Thanks for that. I was sure I was at school	lunatica	Aug 2012	#207
If you remember being at school, it was probably the Apollo 13 mission	eShirl	Aug 2012	#212
Armstong hopping off the ladder onto the ground has been played a million times	lunatica	Aug 2012	#213
Hate to be a Debbie Downer, but I was in the dorm for a group of	hedgehog	Aug 2012	#31
Watching the TV...	Atman	Aug 2012	#32
Probably just a simple cell somewhere....	Panasonic	Aug 2012	#33
on the back poor with my girlfriend and her dad watching it on teevee	spanone	Aug 2012	#34
I was in my parents car outside of Aztec New Mexico driving to Colorado	Ichingcarpenter	Aug 2012	#35
i was in a car too, listening to it the radio	shanti	Aug 2012	#93
I was a teenager, too	DippyDem	Aug 2012	#36
It happened about 11 years before I was born.	Initech	Aug 2012	#37
Visiting my parents...sitting on the sofa holding my month old daughter.	FLyellowdog	Aug 2012	#38
At my summer job in the pool office at a country club. I was alone and couldn't make out the images	gateley	Aug 2012	#39
Not born yet. :( But Neil Armstrong, and everyone at NASA who worked on Apollo, are true heroes.	backscatter712	Aug 2012	#41
Agree. It was a huge undertaking, involving hundreds of people in an array of fields.	pinto	Aug 2012	#51
still dont think	outsideworld	Aug 2012	#43
really?	Shankapotomus	Aug 2012	#48
I was waiting for that one.	HubertHeaver	Aug 2012	#49
Please, don't start here, now. Please.	Bernardo de La Paz	Aug 2012	#58
And the president was born in Kenya, right?	Faygo Kid	Aug 2012	#65
There's a special forum on DU for you flat earthers, IIRC.	kestrel91316	Aug 2012	#71
That's some weapons-grade deliberate ignorance, right there. (nt)	Posteritatis	Aug 2012	#106
Oh for god's sake.	Zoeisright	Aug 2012	#110
Ditto that.	glacierbay	Aug 2012	#126
What's the other nine impossible things you believe before breakfast?	hobbit709	Aug 2012	#116
Being stupid enough to be an Apollo denier probably counts as six or seven impossibles. (nt)	Posteritatis	Aug 2012	#123
Time for this again...	Confusious	Aug 2012	#172
Fan of Alex Jones?	chknltl	Aug 2012	#119
Alex Jones - LOL - even conspiracy theories on steroids does not describe Alex Jones. n/t	RKP5637	Aug 2012	#170
Sadly, he pulls in all too many who should be voting for Democrats.	chknltl	Aug 2012	#180
And on top of that we have Glenn Beck. A real problem is the human psyche for many drifts	RKP5637	Aug 2012	#200
Maybe on your planet they didn't, outsideworld	pinboy3niner	Aug 2012	#124
Time for this again....	Confusious	Aug 2012	#173
Really? ...Are you serious?	Warren DeMontague	Aug 2012	#177
Then you're an idiot. nt	Codeine	Aug 2012	#206
I was 5 years old	abolugi	Aug 2012	#44
probably getting my diaper changed (nt)	Shankapotomus	Aug 2012	#46
I was 2. My mom tells me that I watched on TV.	underpants	Aug 2012	#47
I wasn't born yet	Aerows	Aug 2012	#50
San Pedro CA, at Ports o'Call	madamesilverspurs	Aug 2012	#55
I was 8 mos old	chloes1	Aug 2012	#56
I was ironing & watching it all on TV.	CrispyQ	Aug 2012	#60
In the basement of our home,	Ms. Toad	Aug 2012	#62
I was in the back seat of a 1965 Oldsmobile Cutlass heading west on Interstate 8	slackmaster	Aug 2012	#63
In my grandparents' living room in Ft Collins, CO. With the whole family,	kestrel91316	Aug 2012	#64
At home with my mom...	We are Devo	Aug 2012	#68
I did that too	jberryhill	Aug 2012	#129
I was a few miles away in my house on McDougall and Mullett, FK, watching it on TV	MrScorpio	Aug 2012	#69
In Italy.. accepting all kinds of undeserved congratulations!	annabanana	Aug 2012	#70
In my sisters bed room....	WCGreen	Aug 2012	#72
I was -3 years old at the time n/t	LadyHawkAZ	Aug 2012	#73
9	MFM008	Aug 2012	#78
Welcome to DU! Paul Revere and the Raiders were the Bomb.	Faygo Kid	Aug 2012	#80
Last I heard they were still touring, doing great shows	pinboy3niner	Aug 2012	#165
Chu Lai, RVN.	glacierbay	Aug 2012	#81
Thank you for your service, sir.	Faygo Kid	Aug 2012	#84
If you mean my opinion on Mittens	glacierbay	Aug 2012	#95
Long Binh Post, USARV HQ	TahitiNut	Aug 2012	#113
Welcome home brother	glacierbay	Aug 2012	#115
Long Binh Post, USARV Special Troops HQ	pinboy3niner	Aug 2012	#160
As we discussed, we probably 'knew' each other (on sight, at least).	TahitiNut	Aug 2012	#217
At school, sitting in an apt. with my roommates. n/t	RKP5637	Aug 2012	#82
Definitely one of my favorite astronauts	jimlup	Aug 2012	#83
Long Binh, Vietnam	Crabby Appleton	Aug 2012	#85
I was eight...	MANative	Aug 2012	#86
I was a week away from being born.	smokey nj	Aug 2012	#87
In a bachelor pad in Sunnyvale, California that I shared with other naval flight officers and pilots	FightingIrish	Aug 2012	#88
with my dear dad and brothers . Dad was so excited the next day he bought	lunasun	Aug 2012	#91
I was seven	LiberalLoner	Aug 2012	#92
I was in studio B cleaning up the Arizona "moon dust".....j/k...RIP our nations hero...	lostnote12	Aug 2012	#96
We lived in military housing in Spring Valley, NY	WCIL	Aug 2012	#98
I watched it in French ....	oldhippie	Aug 2012	#99
I was 13 yrs old.	DearAbby	Aug 2012	#100
Hope you kept that puppy.	Faygo Kid	Aug 2012	#103
Nice.	Bertha Venation	Aug 2012	#145
I was 17 years old and was a cook at a steakhouse.	Doc_Technical	Aug 2012	#101
I remember Sesame Street but I was a little too young	TBF	Aug 2012	#102
At the next door neighbors house	TrogL	Aug 2012	#104
Sitting at the TV control board of	RC	Aug 2012	#105
I was 8 and I have no memory of it!	cpwm17	Aug 2012	#107
Sitting in a TV lounge in a hotel in Paris...	regnaD kciN	Aug 2012	#108
Watching it in our family room.	Zoeisright	Aug 2012	#109
Sitting in front of a grainy black and white only TV	chknltl	Aug 2012	#111
Sitting at my home, watching it on our black and white TV..	LeftishBrit	Aug 2012	#112
Nine years old in Columbus, GA	auburngrad82	Aug 2012	#117
Watching it on TV.	ananda	Aug 2012	#121
Sitting in a bar in Colorado Springs, sipping a beer with a friend.	1-Old-Man	Aug 2012	#122
Home sick with a strep throat.	greatauntoftriplets	Aug 2012	#127
Probably taking my own space trip on LSD	graywarrior	Aug 2012	#128
"At 4:18 p.m. EDT on July 20, 1969, the landing module landed...." SUNDAY.	WinkyDink	Aug 2012	#130
I was a "Twinkle in my daddy's eye"	AsahinaKimi	Aug 2012	#133
camp Nellie Huckins	flamingdem	Aug 2012	#135
I was -11 years old...	Earth_First	Aug 2012	#136
Working at an interstate gas station in Iowa	rurallib	Aug 2012	#137
It's my earliest memory...	Mad_Dem_X	Aug 2012	#139
In front of the tv.	LWolf	Aug 2012	#140
Probably celebrating one of my sister's 10th birthday	Catherine Vincent	Aug 2012	#141
An undeveloped sperm in my father's testicles.	Alduin	Aug 2012	#143
Flipping burgers at a Dog 'n Suds Drive-In	NNN0LHI	Aug 2012	#144
Sitting in my Girlfriends apartment	SteveG	Aug 2012	#146
In Marietta Ga with my two oldest children.	asjr	Aug 2012	#147
My family was stationed in panama.....	rppper	Aug 2012	#150
On dad's shoulders at the Sport Center in Mexico City	nadinbrzezinski	Aug 2012	#153
I found it peculiarly undramatic.	kwassa	Aug 2012	#154
I had to hear it on the radio	Lydia Leftcoast	Aug 2012	#155
losing my virginity	Gabi Hayes	Aug 2012	#157
I would have sworn the TV cut from a Cubs game to the landing but...	Gidney N Cloyd	Aug 2012	#159
I didnt exist	darkangel218	Aug 2012	#161
Sitting in front of the TV	liberal N proud	Aug 2012	#163
At the Can Tho Army Airfield in South Viet Nam	Homer Wells	Aug 2012	#164
A 12 year old at summer camp	IDemo	Aug 2012	#166
In Holly Springs Mississippi for my Grand-dads funeral.	Greybnk48	Aug 2012	#167
Watching It On A Zenith Black & White, In Sacramento, With Our Entire Family, On The Couch	WillyT	Aug 2012	#168
We also had a Zenith black & white TV...	rexcat	Aug 2012	#174
I Was 14...	WillyT	Aug 2012	#178
The cool thing about the space program...	rexcat	Aug 2012	#182
My Old Man Was A Marine B-25 Pilot In The SouthPacific In WWII, And Was A Democrat And Journalist...	WillyT	Aug 2012	#185
I was stationed at Patrick AFB in Cocoa Beach, FL...	rexcat	Aug 2012	#187
I Hear Ya... My Dad Got "Sucked" Into Korea... His Words... Thought WWII Would Be The End Of War...	WillyT	Aug 2012	#191
My draft number in 1971 was 18...	rexcat	Aug 2012	#193
Nine years old at home with my parents, siblings	Brewinblue	Aug 2012	#169
My parents were dating.	RandySF	Aug 2012	#175
lol	darkangel218	Aug 2012	#181
10 years old, hotel room, Spokane Washington	steve2470	Aug 2012	#183
With a bunch of other	beveeheart	Aug 2012	#184
In the day room of the enlisted Student Battalion,	jdadd	Aug 2012	#186
I was 12 years old, sitting in my cousin's living room, eating dinner on a TV tray.	KatyaR	Aug 2012	#188
this is a great thread, thanks for starting it	Kali	Aug 2012	#189
+1	CabCurious	Aug 2012	#190
I was minus 11 years old.	Terra Alta	Aug 2012	#192
Yankee Stadium, Bat Day	BeyondGeography	Aug 2012	#194
working at the factory...	madrchsod	Aug 2012	#195
My parents were only 21 and newly engaged.	Jennicut	Aug 2012	#196
breastfeeding	arely staircase	Aug 2012	#197
I was camping at the time	Canuckistanian	Aug 2012	#198
Going outside to dig a "shadow" with NOTHING in it. /nt	TheMadMonk	Aug 2012	#199
I was 17 years old...	virgdem	Aug 2012	#201
I was a 9 yr old watching on TV at home.	rateyes	Aug 2012	#202
I was a pre-k kid in New Orleans.	Bucky	Aug 2012	#203
In Shriners Hospital in Shreveport	Courtesy Flush	Aug 2012	#204
I was about two months along.	Codeine	Aug 2012	#205
Summer camp. nt	avebury	Aug 2012	#208
Illinois State University	noel711	Aug 2012	#210
Taking a picture of the television set in our living room	Gabby Hayes	Aug 2012	#211
One thing I remember is that the Soviet Union	Lydia Leftcoast	Aug 2012	#219

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