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Thread #146612 Message #3395180
Posted By: Bobert
25-Aug-12 - 09:28 PM
Thread Name: Obit: Neil Armstrong, Astronaut (1930-2012)
Subject: RE: Obit: Neil Armstrong
I'm real sorry to hear of his passing... Really...
I remember it well... I was living outside of Montpelier, Va. way back in the sticks on a friend's farm... About a quarter mile walk was the Harris farm, a farm owned by a black family that had held that land going back to just after the Civil War, and there was a path over to it and well, I kinda had some interest in one of Mr. Harris's grand-daughters...
So the day after the landing, my friend and I had been invited over and I remember they had a fire going over there and we were all sitting around that fire and talkin' about stuff and Mr. Harris went into "Man didn't land on the moon"... "That stuff was all filmed out in the dessert"... Well he was up in the years so you don't go arguing with old people who is set in their ways so I let it go but...
...seems that years later we still have these people amongst us... Funny...