[R-390] OT Apollo 11 Mission

[Cecil Acuff]

I am enjoying as much a sense of American Pride just listening to where you 
guys were serving and what you were doing as I had gotten from watching the 
landing.

My Dad woke us boys up (I was 13 and my brother 9) to watch history in the 
making.  Little did we know we would be riding out Hurricane Camille the 
next month.  We lived in Biloxi MS and lived in Air Force base housing as my 
Dad was an air traffic controller at Keesler.  He retired there in 71 (at 
the ripe age of 38) and we settled in Gulfport where I've been ever since. 
Dad is buried at the National Cemetery not a stones throw from where we 
lived in 69 and watched the Apollo landing.  Government recently demolished 
the old housing and built new.  Can't even go to my old address 
anymore...:-(

Funny how life goes...slowly covering our tracks.

Cecil Acuff
Gulfport MS
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To: "rbethman" <rbethman at comcast.net>; <r-390 at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 4:52 AM
Subject: Re: [R-390] OT Apollo 11 Mission


> We were stationed at Aviano Air Base, Italy on 20 July 1969 and heard it 
> on Armed Forces Radio. If I recall, everyone was jumping with joy.  It is 
> amazing how one can use his/her imagination to visually capture an event 
> of this magnitude.  Unfortunately, we did not have TV service in that 
> area.
> What a day in history some 40 years ago when I had just turned 26 and life 
> was still one glorious excursion and adventure.
> 73,
> Glen (Battlestar) Galati, KA7BOJ, ex WB0AXK, DL4GG, HL9WA
> Retired MSGT, USAF
> -------------- Original message from rbethman 
> <rbethman at comcast.net>: -------------- 
>
>
>> David,
>>
>> I was 19, in South East Asia. I went into the consolidated club for a
>> couple ham and cheese sandwiches after being out on patrol.
>>
>> They were showing it on AFRTS with the only TV in the entire outfit.
>>
>> I'm tickled for the hame and cheese, and astounded by what was going
>> on. I had absolutely NO idea what was happening in the rest of the world.
>>
>> Bob - N0DGN - USA Ret.
>>
>> wb5uom at hughes.net wrote: > Ok, its off topic, but you guys on here let me 
>> learn that the R-390 was used
>> in the Apollo Missions.
>> >
>> > So, I am curious, where were YOU - today 40 years ago?
>> > > I myself was 14 and was flying alone on a Braniff Flight over the 
>> > > Carribbean Ocean on my way to the Panama Canal Zone when the Pilot 
>> > > announced we had landed
>> on the moon.
>> >
>> > David/ WB5UOM
>> >
>> >
>>
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