Reply #7: I was 8, a month short of my ninth birthday, at that time

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I remember my mom calling my brother and me in the house when we were outside playing ball. She told me I had to watch Neil Armstrong et al. land on the moon. I asked her why and her response was, "This is history. One day you'll tell your kids you personally saw men landing on the moon." All four of us (my dad was at work so he didn't get to see it) were gathered in the living room watching a small, black-and-white TV, when Neil Armstrong uttered the immortal words, "...one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." I thought it was going to be one of my mom's boring lessons but it turned out to be something very riveting and interesting; in fact, I was sad when they returned to the regularly scheduled programming. This is a history lesson I never forgot; in fact, I told my friends -- and their children -- that I personally witnessed the first successful moon landing on the set.