Neil Armstrong
43 years ago I sat with my family in front of a big box cabinet Zenith television and watched in amazement, as an 11 year old kid would, as Apollo 11 landed on the surface of the moon. 8 years earlier a President, whose fate was sealed in the back seat of a motorcade cadilac, belted out an electrifying speach to not only the people of the United States of America but to the world, as to why America chooses to do the things that are hard, how ignorance generates fear and the path to overcomming that fear is paved with knowledge...an inspiring speach that even today is unparralled.
Thus the die was cast and America was on it's way to the outer limits of the unknown...our unknown. The moon was now a target for mankind as a whole and who to lead humanity to that celestial frontier would be a graduate from Purdue University born Aug. 5th 1930 in Wapakoneta Ohio, an aerospace engineer familiar with jet aircraft and helicopters, a man named Neil Armstrong.
Mr. Armstrong was a fighter pilot with 78 combat missions in the Korean War who managed to escape with his life after being shot at and hit over the Chinese border. He was one of the first men to fly right near the atmosphere's edge (207,500ft) at 4,000mph. in the experimental X-15 rocket.
Now some 40+ years later we say good-bye to one of the first men to feel the presence of God in the vast emptiness of space. Man has made many leaps and bounds since then but no step was ever so large as the one taken by a humble man who took the first step on the fixture that suspends itself in the nightime sky...a fixture that has been the subject of folklore and fable...the fixture that lured us into making "one small step for a man, one large step for mankind".
Today Aug 31st is the first day of a Blue Moon. A Blue Moon is a phenomenon that occurs every 3years and how coincidental that this Blue Moon comes on the day that Neil Armstrong is layed to rest.
God Speed Mr. Armstrong my hat goes off to you. You leave a legacy that will never be matched. The world you leave is one of struggle and strife and I apologize for our deliquency. I only wish that your accomplishments could have been used for the betterment of humanity rather than it's destruction.
The Great Sage
Thus the die was cast and America was on it's way to the outer limits of the unknown...our unknown. The moon was now a target for mankind as a whole and who to lead humanity to that celestial frontier would be a graduate from Purdue University born Aug. 5th 1930 in Wapakoneta Ohio, an aerospace engineer familiar with jet aircraft and helicopters, a man named Neil Armstrong.
Mr. Armstrong was a fighter pilot with 78 combat missions in the Korean War who managed to escape with his life after being shot at and hit over the Chinese border. He was one of the first men to fly right near the atmosphere's edge (207,500ft) at 4,000mph. in the experimental X-15 rocket.
Now some 40+ years later we say good-bye to one of the first men to feel the presence of God in the vast emptiness of space. Man has made many leaps and bounds since then but no step was ever so large as the one taken by a humble man who took the first step on the fixture that suspends itself in the nightime sky...a fixture that has been the subject of folklore and fable...the fixture that lured us into making "one small step for a man, one large step for mankind".
Today Aug 31st is the first day of a Blue Moon. A Blue Moon is a phenomenon that occurs every 3years and how coincidental that this Blue Moon comes on the day that Neil Armstrong is layed to rest.
God Speed Mr. Armstrong my hat goes off to you. You leave a legacy that will never be matched. The world you leave is one of struggle and strife and I apologize for our deliquency. I only wish that your accomplishments could have been used for the betterment of humanity rather than it's destruction.
The Great Sage
posted by Dave at 3:34 PM
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