Copy and pasted Comments from The Pittsburgh Comet...Appropriately enough!
Monk said...
Apollo 11 lifted off 40 years ago today, taking Neil Armstrong and company to Moon...I remember watching first step several days later...A Great Day for 'Mankind'.
If first step were taken today, 40 years later it would not be politically correct to say 'Mankind'.It would read something like this:A Great Day for Men, Women, Gay, Transgender, Muslim, Jew, Christian, Atheist, Black, Non-White, Non-Married...and so on.
On this Day 40 years ago the world collectively held it’s breath...Nothing in the last 40 years (except Apollo 13, 'Houston We Have A Problem) can compare to uniting a people..earthlings.
The fallout technology from Space program has improved our lives...Stimulus money should be spent on programs that benefit all of Mankind. Not only the benefits of fallout technology but a sense of Worldly Being...Just a Monk wandering...
July 16, 2009 4:04 PM
Monk said...
Walter Cronkite died today...gave us news when President Kennedy was killed, then Bobby Kennedy...Walked our first steps and later ran around the moon in a buggy...
Walter Cronkite, dead but not forgotten, young at age 92...
Last newsman...
"America, we have a problem...."
July 18, 2009 6:24 PM