20 July 1969: Where were you?
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Re: 20 July 1969: Where were you?
Let's see - I was 14, in Spokane, Washington. Watched it on a BW TV with my parents.
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Maryland. Parental unit living room. Sophomore in High School.
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Re: 20 July 1969: Where were you?
No idea, though I was 2 years and 11 months old. It just doesn't feature in my memories at all. Maybe we didn't have a TV.
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That was a few years before my parents had even met.
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Re: 20 July 1969: Where were you?
Hampshire, England. I was 12. Living room in the family home, presumably after school, as I don't remember being given a day off! Like dubhlinn, I felt that their greatest achievement was finding the way home again. Having grown up on programmes like "Lost in Space," I was both used to people landing on other planets and to them getting lost!
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Re: 20 July 1969: Where were you?
10 years old, family living room in home in newport News, Virginia, after a summer's day at the pool.
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Re: 20 July 1969: Where were you?
Sixteen and confused. I took a picture of the TV screen. Also took a picture of a 'Felix the Cat' cartoon.
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Re: 20 July 1969: Where were you?
The wife(girlfriend at the time) and I were taking a break from school and spending some time on the east coast. We were camping at Oregon Inlet in the National Seashore when a ranger invited all the campers to the Wright Brother's Memorial to watch the landing. Had the Wright flyer hanging behind me as they touched down, talk about a giant step in technology. Almost got killed by Hurricane Camille three weeks later. Good summer.
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Re: 20 July 1969: Where were you?
-Summer camp in Michigan watching the lunar landing on the cafeteria TV. I think everybody gave a collective "Wow!" then returned to the pursuit of other teen diversions, rumors & hopes of beer and/or romance primarily.
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Re: 20 July 1969: Where were you?
On my Dad's ranch, up on Black Mtn in Healdsburg. It was a typical simmering hot day and I had been outside, raking the madrone leaves as they crunched under my feet. I remember coming into the house, still with my eyes adjusted to outside, and seeing the images on the teevee.
I miss when things were a big deal. I think aging has made me somewhat numb, but it's hard to differentiate if it's that or the kind of world we live in now. The last big tv thing that really struck me were those aerial shots of Saddam burning up his own oil fields; I felt like it was Biblically apocalyptic.
I miss when things were a big deal. I think aging has made me somewhat numb, but it's hard to differentiate if it's that or the kind of world we live in now. The last big tv thing that really struck me were those aerial shots of Saddam burning up his own oil fields; I felt like it was Biblically apocalyptic.
How do you prepare for the end of the world?
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Re: 20 July 1969: Where were you?
I spent that summer working as a maintenance man in a mall in Delaware. There was a piano store that also sold televisions in the mall. A large console TV was on display in the store window. The store manager was kind enough to tune Walter Cronkite in for the shoppers and curtailed his usual musical antics on the organ. I watched as much as possible. I worked there with a band mate and after our shift was over we drove to Philly and talked along the way about the possible meanings of the event.
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Re: 20 July 1969: Where were you?
I'm older than you? Far out!Walden wrote:That was a few years before my parents had even met.
And now there was no doubt that the trees were really moving - moving in and out through one another as if in a complicated country dance. ('And I suppose,' thought Lucy, 'when trees dance, it must be a very, very country dance indeed.')
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Re: 20 July 1969: Where were you?
JAMES CARL KOTRC:
MAJOR
JAMES CARL KOTRC
WAS A DISTINGUISHED GRADUATE OF THE
UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY
AT WEST POINT, NEW YORK
IN THE CLASS OF 1964
WHO WAS SERVING AS
DELTA COMPANY COMMANDER
2/27th INFANTRY
25th INFANTRY DIVISION
" THE WOLFHOUNDS "
AT THE TIME OF HIS DEATH
AT THE BO BO CANAL
ON 29 JULY 1969
AND WAS POSTHUMOUSLY AWARDED
THE DISTINGUISHED SERVICE CROSS
THE PURPLE HEART MEDAL
- DUTY - HONOR - COUNTRY -
- THE LONG GRAY LINE -
YOU ARE NOT FORGOTTEN
NOR SHALL YOU EVER BE
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
A tiny fort near the Cambodian border
built in August 1969, with two purposes,
To draw enemy attacks as a means of fixing and
destroying enemy forces, and disrupt the enemy
communications route passing through the area
was named in his honor as,
PATROL BASE KOTRC
MAJOR
JAMES CARL KOTRC
WAS A DISTINGUISHED GRADUATE OF THE
UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY
AT WEST POINT, NEW YORK
IN THE CLASS OF 1964
WHO WAS SERVING AS
DELTA COMPANY COMMANDER
2/27th INFANTRY
25th INFANTRY DIVISION
" THE WOLFHOUNDS "
AT THE TIME OF HIS DEATH
AT THE BO BO CANAL
ON 29 JULY 1969
AND WAS POSTHUMOUSLY AWARDED
THE DISTINGUISHED SERVICE CROSS
THE PURPLE HEART MEDAL
- DUTY - HONOR - COUNTRY -
- THE LONG GRAY LINE -
YOU ARE NOT FORGOTTEN
NOR SHALL YOU EVER BE
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
A tiny fort near the Cambodian border
built in August 1969, with two purposes,
To draw enemy attacks as a means of fixing and
destroying enemy forces, and disrupt the enemy
communications route passing through the area
was named in his honor as,
PATROL BASE KOTRC
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Re: 20 July 1969: Where were you?
Pretty much that's my story too.Redwolf wrote:I was 8 years old. They let us stay home from school to watch it on the news (and yes...on a black and white TV!).
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I remember the sort of blargy sound, and the grainy b&w feed, and how my parents were making a big enough deal of it that the atmosphere was energized enough that this particular memory sticks with me.
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Re: 20 July 1969: Where were you?
I was 12 and my family had a pop up camper parked at a campground about 45 minutes from home called Toonerville Junction, where we went every weekend. We were primitive in that we didn't use electricity so had no TV, but we brought out a tiny 10 inch black and white and ran a cord to the neighbor's hook up. For the landing we huddled around this TV and watched in the dark as Armstrong stepped foot on the moon. I watched every last minute of it.