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Neil Armstrong, the first man on the moon, has died at age 82, NBC News has learned
Twitter | 08/25/12 | Kevin Davis

Posted on 08/25/2012 12:14:39 PM PDT by KevinDavis

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To: usconservative

I still remember that day - was living in Ankara Turkey and we didn’t have AFN in those days so my parents and I sat out on our balcony and watched our Turkish neighbors’ TV through binoculars.....what a proud day! And then a few months later when the three astronauts did their world tour got to see them sitting on the backs of cars being paraded through Ankara. Man, it seems like yesterday! RIP Mr Armstrong!


101 posted on 08/25/2012 1:46:44 PM PDT by BamaDi ("The definition of a racist today is anyone who is winning an argument with a liberal.")
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To: Jack Hydrazine

Jack you’re making me cry. This news today is just very upsetting. What an incedible man among men. So brave, so talented, so very special. We are all so Blessed as Americans and human beings that we were Given him. Prayers and condolences to his family.


102 posted on 08/25/2012 1:47:58 PM PDT by Miss Behave (All ways, always.)
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To: KevinDavis

RIP


103 posted on 08/25/2012 1:49:11 PM PDT by Random_User_250 ("Democracy is indispensable to socialism." -- Vladimir Lenin)
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To: tet68

I just lowered mine....Rest Well, Commander.


104 posted on 08/25/2012 1:49:52 PM PDT by Shady (The Tea Party is the Party of the American People, Working and creating wealth in SPITE of OBAMA!)
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To: moonshot925
90% of the time I agree with you!
Armstrong going just depressed me!
But we all have to go sometime and he was 82.
Can you imagine being an aerospace engineering student at U of Cincinnati and have taken a class from him heard him lecture? It couldn't get any better then that!
105 posted on 08/25/2012 1:51:32 PM PDT by Reily
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To: taildragger
Does anyone here remember the Aviation Show he did on Warbirds in the mid 90's on I think Discovery or the History Channel?

Wasn't that the one he took a rickety old airplane up and he could only fly the length of the airfield because the engine and plane were so old?

Brave, brave man.

106 posted on 08/25/2012 1:53:09 PM PDT by The Cajun (Sarah Palin, Mark Levin......Nuff said.)
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To: KevinDavis
Comdolences to the Armstrong family.

I'll never forget a story I read about him taking a tour of the Holy Land. He told a writer or reporter who was along for the trip that walking in the same places where Jesus Christ had walked two thousand years ago was more awe-inspiring than walking on the moon.

107 posted on 08/25/2012 1:55:21 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("If you touch my junk, I'm gonna have you arrested.")
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To: KevinDavis

American Hero....Rest in peace


108 posted on 08/25/2012 1:55:50 PM PDT by Minutemen ("It's a Religion of Peace")
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To: Shady

I have not lowered mine since President Reagan passed and also flew the black ribbon. I am doing so now.


109 posted on 08/25/2012 1:55:52 PM PDT by alisasny (If you cant afford 10 bucks per month to save your own daughters ovary then vote OBAMA.)
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To: KevinDavis
RIP, Mr. Armstrong, you, along with the rest of our brave space pioneers, have been an inspiration too of us, both great and small. My uncle worked for NASA and most likely, you have met him, he worked on the electronics of the space capsules and later, the space shuttle. I guess both of yuns are together now. Myself, although my career was not into space, the space program inspired me to learn electronics and computers as well as getting my amateur radio license. I was three years old when you and Buzz landed on the Moon but I still remember it like yesterday. Godspeed Mr. Armstrong, you will be missed.

You know what is a bummer, there has been an entire generation of people who were born and grown into adulthood that have never ,ever seen a man walk on the Moon live on TV. I'm 46 and I remember. When I look at the Moon, I think of a true minority of a minority, in all of known human history, there have only been 12 people who can claim to have walked on the Moon. These men are in their 80's and we are losing them, it is an unfortunate fact of life, but it bums me that they might not live to see another American on the Moon. The Moon landings were America's greatest triumph and I feel great to have seen it.

I think of that everytime I look up at the Moon.
110 posted on 08/25/2012 1:57:43 PM PDT by Nowhere Man (June 28th, 2012, the Day America Jumped The Shark.)
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To: KevinDavis

Sadly we will arrive at a point in time where no one alive will have ever walked on the moon. I never thought that would be true, in fact I thought it would be the opposite many years ago, that there would be generations of people who would have gone there.

We had a great future before it became important to “save” those who did not want to do for themselves.


111 posted on 08/25/2012 1:58:26 PM PDT by ejonesie22 (8/30/10, the day Truth won.)
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To: alisasny

He was also a fighter pilot in the Korean War.


112 posted on 08/25/2012 1:58:26 PM PDT by Mmogamer (I refudiate the lamestream media, leftists and their prevaricutions.)
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To: KevinDavis
a more recent photo less than a year ago

Astronaut Neil Armstrong delivers remarks after being presented with the Congressional Gold Medal during a ceremony in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol November 16, 2011 in Washington, DC.

113 posted on 08/25/2012 1:58:29 PM PDT by xp38
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To: Alberta's Child

BTTT

May God keep watch.
Tatt


114 posted on 08/25/2012 1:58:46 PM PDT by thesearethetimes... ("Courage, is fear that has said its prayers." Dorothy Bernard)
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To: KevinDavis

RIP Neil.


115 posted on 08/25/2012 2:01:19 PM PDT by Bishop_Malachi (Liberal Socialism - A philosophy which advocates spreading a low standard of living equally.)
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To: Miss Behave

Sorry about that. I miss him already, too. Can’t wait to see us land on the Moon again in his memory.


116 posted on 08/25/2012 2:01:33 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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To: KevinDavis

RIP Neil Armstrong.


117 posted on 08/25/2012 2:02:18 PM PDT by ILS21R (The time is nigh.)
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To: DallasDeb

see post 47.


118 posted on 08/25/2012 2:02:28 PM PDT by matthew fuller (They'll have to pry my gun, my bible, and my chikin from my cold dead fingers.)
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To: KevinDavis

RIP. In future ages America itself may be forgotten, but not the first man to stand on another world.


119 posted on 08/25/2012 2:03:14 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: KevinDavis

Not much will move me to tears but this does, we had such hopes back then, it seems his death and our current situation ends it all.


120 posted on 08/25/2012 2:03:32 PM PDT by pepperdog (Why are Democrats Afraid of a Voter ID Law?)
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