Welcome to DU!
The truly grassroots left-of-center political community where regular people, not algorithms, drive the discussions and set the standards.
Join the community:
Create a free account
Support DU (and get rid of ads!):
Become a Star Member
All Forums
Issue Forums
Culture Forums
Alliance Forums
Region Forums
Support Forums
Help & Search
General Discussion
In reply to the discussion: Where were you when Neil Armstrong stepped off that ladder on to the Moon? [View all]Greybnk48
(10,144 posts)167. In Holly Springs Mississippi for my Grand-dads funeral.
My sis and I spent days on end in the hospital sitting with him after a massive stroke. We missed the whole thing on t.v. and there really wasn't much talk about it that I can recall. He died and we had to plan the funeral for my Grandma, etc. I was living in Ocean City New Jersey at the time and I don't really remember much talk about it when I got home. But I was sad, so I may have blocked it.
I've sure seen it enough now. What an amazing feat!
Edit history
Please sign in to view edit histories.
219 replies
= new reply since forum marked as read
Highlight:
NoneDon't highlight anything
5 newestHighlight 5 most recent replies
RecommendedHighlight replies with 5 or more recommendations
Where were you when Neil Armstrong stepped off that ladder on to the Moon? [View all]
Faygo Kid
Aug 2012
OP
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
I went to driver's ed at Denby and to Notre Dame High, right next to Eastland
Motown_Johnny
Aug 2012
#40
Sitting criss-cross-applesauce on the floor in Mrs. Maclary's 1st grade class.
woodsprite
Aug 2012
#17
(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
Chattanooga, TN. I was six years old. I will never forget it. RIP Mr. Armstrong. nt.
CottonBear
Aug 2012
#23
We were having a family picnic. I told my niece this was something she could tell her grandchildren.
libinnyandia
Aug 2012
#26
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
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
My brother worked for GE/NASA at the time and on all the Apollo missions. He was in quality control.
juajen
Aug 2012
#176
Armstong hopping off the ladder onto the ground has been played a million times
lunatica
Aug 2012
#213
I was in my parents car outside of Aztec New Mexico driving to Colorado
Ichingcarpenter
Aug 2012
#35
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
Being stupid enough to be an Apollo denier probably counts as six or seven impossibles. (nt)
Posteritatis
Aug 2012
#123
Alex Jones - LOL - even conspiracy theories on steroids does not describe Alex Jones. n/t
RKP5637
Aug 2012
#170
And on top of that we have Glenn Beck. A real problem is the human psyche for many drifts
RKP5637
Aug 2012
#200
I was in the back seat of a 1965 Oldsmobile Cutlass heading west on Interstate 8
slackmaster
Aug 2012
#63
I was a few miles away in my house on McDougall and Mullett, FK, watching it on TV
MrScorpio
Aug 2012
#69
In a bachelor pad in Sunnyvale, California that I shared with other naval flight officers and pilots
FightingIrish
Aug 2012
#88
I was in studio B cleaning up the Arizona "moon dust".....j/k...RIP our nations hero...
lostnote12
Aug 2012
#96
Watching It On A Zenith Black & White, In Sacramento, With Our Entire Family, On The Couch
WillyT
Aug 2012
#168
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 Hear Ya... My Dad Got "Sucked" Into Korea... His Words... Thought WWII Would Be The End Of War...
WillyT
Aug 2012
#191
I was 12 years old, sitting in my cousin's living room, eating dinner on a TV tray.
KatyaR
Aug 2012
#188