Apollo 8 Earthrise picture - recreation of the event

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14. As we listened to the astronauts from space...

I was almost 11 as I sat on the scratchy rug, the adults on the couch and chair, as the Astronauts read from the Christian Book of Genesis...."and God saw that it was good. And from the crew of Apollo 8 we close with good night, good luck, a Merry Christmas-and God bless all of you on the good Earth."
There were humans, like my dad... from thousands and thousands of miles away from my Grandmas' house in northeast Detroit, leaving everything behind, their beloveds,their children, their mom&dads, their family and being the among of the first to see a lunar... not earths' sunrise a lunar sunrise, and speaking to all of us on this small blue planet , telling us earthbound humans what it was like for those 3 humans.... it still can make me catch my breath at the daring, at THEIR daring to go so far from the known to the far side of the moon, and then back to this planet. past words...