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Today, our United States of America, has lost a true American hero.
NEIL ALDEN ARMSTRONG has passed on.
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| NEIL ALDEN ARMSTRONG Born: Tuesday 05 August 1930 Died: Saturday 25 August 2012 |
I’m so glad I have that memory, that I was lucky enough to be living on this Earth and watch him step onto the surface of the Moon.
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On that eventful day, I was a Private First Class in the United States Army, stationed at Spangdahlem Air Force Base, in the Federal Republic of Germany, where I was a Field Radio Relay and Carrier Equipment Repair Specialist (MOS 31 L 20) assigned to Team A-2, 11th Air Defense Signal Battalion, of the 32d Army Air Defense Command.
My buddies in the United States Air Force, Dave Peters and Lonnie Nordberg, invited me to their microwave radio station to listen to it over the radio.
At the same time, we also had the option of stepping into the next room and watching it on television.
It was neat running back and forth between those two rooms, comparing the experiences.
Also, I’ll always remember that scene in the movie, "HANOI HILTON", when the P.O.W.s received their mail at a Christmas dinner, and they saw that POSTAGE STAMP, which had been ignorantly overlooked by their captors!!!
AND another thing – - – ,
I’m the officially appointed bard of my ancient and honorable Scottish clan, descended from Nechtan, a king of the Picts.
Well, guess what?
Oh, he was a HERO sure enough!
He sacrificed himself to a lifetime of intense discipline, denial, and self control, along with enduring the most extreme physical and mental training, and in the end, making the ultimate risk, defying all dangers, to pioneer into the perilous unknown.
That, boys and girls, IS the very definition of a true "hero".
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