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60. I was at my boyfriend(future husband) mom's house in Dayton

Sun Aug 26, 2012, 08:07 AM

Aug 2012

He had just gotten out of the Marines after serving in Vietnam. 1969 was a great time to be an American. We young people had a wonderful future ahead of us, or so we thought at that time.

In the middle 80's our son was racing gokarts, and one of the races was in Wapakoneta, Armstrong's home town. We happened to meet his dad and briefly talked to him about his son walking on the moon. Obviously he was quite proud of him, but not in a gushing manner. Just normal people from small-town America, no big egos.

Spouse also thought quite highly of Neil Armstrong, and John Glenn too. Both great heroes from Ohio.

Edit: Spouse just sent me this link for Neil Armstrong famous quotes...
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/n/neil_armstrong.html

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