[R-390] Apollo 11 50 years ago

[Dennis Deaton]

I came home from college (Cal-State Long Beach) for the weekend. Watched 
the moon landing and walk on my mom's TV.  She asked why I was so 
interested in it.  I surprised her by saying that I'd have easily given 
body parts to be up there in place of Neil Armstrong. I had returned 
from Vietnam the previous year and had gone back to school.  I was 
studying Electrical Engineering.

The following week, when the Apollo 11 crew was re-entering the 
atmosphere, I was sitting in a EE class.  The teacher was a retired Rear 
Admiral who was also our undergrad advisor. He had a heart condition and 
all of us vets helped him up and down the stairs of the engineering 
building.  At the time of the Apollo 11 re-entry, the city of Long Beach 
lit off all the air-raid sirens in town as a salute.  Admiral Goldman 
turned white, grabbed his chest and partially collapsed over his 
lectern.  All of us ran to his aid. He caught his breath and exclaimed, 
"Son of a Bitch! All I could think of was, 'Its Pearl Harbor, and the 
Japs are coming!'" He had been Commander on a ship in Pearl Harbor at 
the time of the attack.

Dennis Deaton, WA6ACC

Apple Valley, CA


On 7/20/2019 8:19 PM, wb5uom at hughes.net wrote:
> I know this went around about 10 years ago , but thought  some might like it
> again.
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> Where were YOU today July 20,1969 ?
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> David / WB5UOM
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> East Texas USA
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