Comments on: Put Yourself in July of 1969

By: Lily

Lily — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:14:26 +0000

OMG! My cousin, Jennifer, is the Senior Editor for this magazine! NO JOKE! I stumbled upon this website for a school project! Weird, right?

By: Richard Dixon

Richard Dixon — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 13:33:38 +0000

No need to defend your work, MC. A great post. I love bringing myself back to another era. Even though I was only 6 at the time, I remember waking my Dad from his nap on the couch to say “They’re going to walk on the moon!” It was huge, still one of my favorite moments.

By: Tomas

Tomas — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 03:23:34 +0000

Hey Gary! I was there with you in Idaho. Coming from the desert of New Mexico where it was over 100 degrees, I was freezing at the Jamboree. But it was glorious listening to the landing, and that night they showed us a replay of the first step on drive-in theater type screens. Talk about fuzzy! It was also during that week that during the morning newscast that was broadcast throughout the camp we learned that Senator Ted Kennedy had driven off a bridge resulting in the death of a young aide. I remember as a young kid of 16 thinking “There goes his shot for the White House.” The whole space program begining with Mercury was what inspired me to get a degree in Electrical Engineering so I could work with missiles and rockets and astronauts. Still working with missiles and rockets and loving it!!!!!!

By: Tech

Tech — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 00:57:22 +0000

When are they going to send someone to walk on the moon again? It’s been 40 years!

By: Larry

Larry — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 00:00:26 +0000

Born in 64, I can’t say that I really remember the 69 moon landing as such, but I do remember subsequent ones as kind of like “Oh, we’re going to the moon again”. At that stage of my life moon landings were the norm, neat, but as far as I was concerned we were always going to the moon. Bet others born the same time felt the same way.

By: Richard

Richard — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 22:33:14 +0000

I definitely remember photos of women putting bras into 50 gallon drums that were blazing.

By: Hummer

Hummer — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 22:04:08 +0000

I feel old too! And don’t rename your post. We had to live the turbulent year of ’68 to be in the mindset to appreciate 1969 and the moon landing. Finally something to cheer about! We had a packed house that night with extended family over to watch the landing and first steps. My Dad bought an old used TV to go in the living room at the opposite end of the room so everyone would be able to see the screen. I can remember thinking: Who ever heard of having two TVs in one house!?! And turned on!!! It was the only night I can remember when every child was allowed to stay up all night for the broadcast. Few of us made it, but it was the fact that we could’ve that sparked the night. I can remember the picture of Armstrong’s feet on the screen and then his little hop to the moon’s surface. It was awesome!

By: Gary

Gary — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 21:12:58 +0000

I and about 100,000 of “my closest friends” were in Idaho for the National Jamboree of the Boy Scouts on that day.

No TV for us campers, but plenty of people had radios and, since many of us were working on making dinner, you could hear the sounds of the event taking place all over the camp.

“The Eagle has landed” brought up a fantastic roar throughout the camp.

Rumor has it that the LEM was called “The Eagle” because Armstrong is an Eagle Scout. That certainly made a difference to the “2nd largest city in Idaho” (for that week.)

They had a tough time finding thousands of of American flags to put on all the tents but it was a fantastic sight to see.

By: daddy's girl

daddy's girl — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 18:08:56 +0000

It was my daddy’s 6th birthday the day of the landing. Now it makes it that much more special.

By: JaneM

JaneM — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 17:12:29 +0000

There were so many events that occurred in ’68 & ’69 that I tell my kids it was like living the ForestGumpian’ way. If you didn’t live it it is hard to explain what it was like. Man I feel old!