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That afternoon I was in the right-center-field bleachers at Fenway Park, Boston, watching the Red Sox play the Baltimore Orioles. The PA system made an announcement during the game, the game stopped, people rose as one, cheered and applauded for about 15 minutes. Then the game resumed.

What was announced, you ask?

The Eagle has landed!

Where were you? And for those young whippersnappers out there who weren't born yet, you don't have to answer this!

I was T minus 608 days and counting...

I was packing my things in my mom's womb, getting ready to go hang out at Woodstock in a month. (I have no idea if that's true, but since I'm adopted, it is plausible. )

I don't remember anything about the landing itself.

What i do remember is Captain Kangaroo being pre-empted, I guess the next day, for the astronauts being on the moon, and i was angry. Dad told me that it was something that had never happened before, and I should pay attention because it was important. It still didn't seem as important as Mr. Moose and Bunny Rabbit, but I calmed down some.

I was a couple of months from being 3, and it is one of my first memories.

OZZIE4DUKE wrote:

The Eagle has landed!

Where were you?

I was in Fayetteville, hanging out in the house I grew up in where my Dad still lives. Simpler times, that is for sure.

Our daughters were seven and five. We had friends over for dinner and were all gathered around our little black and white TV sitting on the floor for those first fuzzy pictures of the first steps on the moon.

I'm still astounded at the events that have taken place in my lifetime. From the Salk vaccine and penicillin to jet flight and multiple landings on the moon and from TV to the internet. My third grade class came to my house to watch the inauguration of Harry Truman because we had one of the first television sets.

Cameron and I are the very same age. We've seen it all!!!

Tonight I'm pretty sad over our having lost James Garner. His role in "Space Cowboys" was memorable for me. Seems eery that he died on the anniversary of the moonwalk. Remember? He was the "cowboy" who sacrificed himself for the safe return of the others by floating off into space, saving them precious energy onboard.

Love, Ima

Beats the hell outta me where I was 45 years ago, let alone what I was doing. Great memory though.

I can still picture the rug in the family room in Atlanta as we all lay around watching the moon landing. Also remember Walter Conkrite sitting behind the big orange disk as he gave NASA news. Uncle Gulf was very good to me. A few short months later, I got to see the 3 astronauts as they entered the hotel in Tokyo and I got "Neil Arms" autograph. He had to stop mid-signing to catch up to his group.

Ima Facultiwyfe wrote:Our daughters were seven and five. We had friends over for dinner and were all gathered around our little black and white TV sitting on the floor for those first fuzzy pictures of the first steps on the moon.

I'm still astounded at the events that have taken place in my lifetime. From the Salk vaccine and penicillin to jet flight and multiple landings on the moon and from TV to the internet. My third grade class came to my house to watch the inauguration of Harry Truman because we had one of the first television sets.

Cameron and I are the very same age. We've seen it all!!!

Tonight I'm pretty sad over our having lost James Garner. His role in "Space Cowboys" was memorable for me. Seems eery that he died on the anniversary of the moonwalk. Remember? He was the "cowboy" who sacrificed himself for the safe return of the others by floating off into space, saving them precious energy onboard.

Love, Ima

There are a few generations in our past that have seen incredible changes in world history; I've often thought that yours has to be one of the ones at the top. Unfortunately due to war, the results of technological advances in your lifetime are breathtaking when you step back and look at the larger picture. And happily, you aren't done yet! I have a mere taste, in that the first big planes I flew on with my parents were props that we walked onto the tarmac to climb the stairs to board; my favorite books back then were ones that illustrated the coming "jet age". Those pictorials still capture my imagination, drawn with pen and ink and not on a computer as everything is now. I can literally still smell those pages as I opened them, captivated by what artists pictured our world would be like not even today, but 20 years ago. I love our advances, so many of them were unseen. I'm still waiting on my hovercar, though.

We were at a 'watch' party - my dad had was with IBM and been involved with NASA and the Apollo missions. They had stuff for the kids and models of the moon and the LEM and a Saturn 5 also if I recall they had a helmet and gloves from a space suit. it was very cool.

It is also the day one my aunts died - she had had bone cancer for a long time and was hell bent to see them walk on the moon. I am told she was drifting in and out but they managed to wake her to see the first walk. She passed quietly a few moments later, content.

windsor wrote:We were at a 'watch' party - my dad had was with IBM and been involved with NASA and the Apollo missions. They had stuff for the kids and models of the moon and the LEM and a Saturn 5 also if I recall they had a helmet and gloves from a space suit. it was very cool.

It is also the day one my aunts died - she had had bone cancer for a long time and was hell bent to see them walk on the moon. I am told she was drifting in and out but they managed to wake her to see the first walk. She passed quietly a few moments later, content.

The human spirit is amazing - from making the moon walk happen to your aunt hanging on until she saw that walk.

I remember the old ref trying to get our 3 y/o son to "watch this history in the making"! As you might guess, he was not interested at all! His Dad kept trying but Brad somehow didn't get what "history in the making" had to do with his toys!