What were you doing July 20, 1969?

[tripleoption]

Not to go off topic,

Looks like the shuttle made it back. I guess that's one more small step for man.

[NimpoCub]

Interesting read.

At ease, Gunny! No one hinted at Grunt Shooters. I had one of those Carcanos, and it was NOT a thing of beauty. (It got ripped during the move up to Canaduh.) I could never imagine anyone choosing that POS for accuracy.

July '69 I was fixing radios on F-4s & sweltering in Saigon. No TV's.
I traded an Army guy an airconditioner for an AK47, never did get the AK back to the world. (The airconditioner came off the back of an Army truck! Is the statute of limitations over??

[RaisedByWolves]

And to think our country doesn't do
Anything awesome like that anymore. I guess times have changed. And at that time, GA was huge too! I was born too late..

[Randyk]

US Navy Submarine School, New London Connecticut. Stayed up late with a fuzzy B&W tv.

[supercrow]

I was a 22 yr old street officer, and was wrestling drunken river drivers in one of the many bars on the so-called "wet end" of the main street.

[Anne]

Wow, what a walk down Memory Lane, seeing the names of some long-ago members. Not to mention the moonwalk! I was in Frankenmuth MI, at Zehnder's restaurant with my family. At one point, everyone got up to go watch a tiny B&W TV in the lobby. Then we all remembered our chicken dinners getting cold, and went back to eating just as soon as Armstrong walked on the moon.

Anne.

[S2D]

I had one of those Carcanos, and it was NOT a thing of beauty. I could never imagine anyone choosing that POS for accuracy.

Because the Carcano's have a .269 dia bore (groove) Most bullets are .264. I bought a carbine many years ago for $15. Shot like a shotgun. Now I shoot it with properly sized cast bullets and it's very accurate. I have a long rifle now that I shoot out to 500 yds at military matches and it is very accurate. I just passed it on to my daughter and moved on to a Siamese Mauser.

[eoliverosh]

Power failures in Colombia! HA! still common, some things never change

Greetings from Colombia

[Lasater]

Waiting to be born two days later (7/22/69). Ed

[mvivion]

Somewhere deep underwater off Vladivostok.

Heard about it much later.

Gunny........accuracy about accuracy....good one.

MTV

[Ole Bob]

I remember it like yesterday: My buddy Dave and I were in our hangar at Thun Field in Puyallup, WA working on the Beech Staggerwing that we rebuilt. The radio was going full blast with the news of the "trip".

[Doorgunner]

I was working in a grocery store just after graduating from highschool. Remember it well. A year later, I was in boot camp at Ft. Lewis, WA and six months later flying missions over Vietnam as a Huey Crew Chief. Life moved fast and lots of adventures since.

[BradleyG]

Constructing survival gear from a parachute while watching the landing on TV in the VOQ at Fairchild AFB, Spokane, WA. This was post pilot training survival and E&E training. Two months later I was flying missions over Laos. My fellow trainees and I sat glued to the TV as the Eagle landed.

[Coyote Ugly]

According to my log book, I flew in to Reno that day to check on my son, joecub. He was still in his mommas belly, and would be for another 2 weeks.
Tv was one really snowy channel that we never looked at.

[OLDCROWE]

Holding the ladder...








While my dad was adjusting the antenna!

Was at the Kennedy Space Center over Father's day, first time there and it was really cool, took the 3rd ever tour (thanks to Daughter #1) of the launch control building and then the bus took a driving tour and stopped at the Apollo visitors center and my opinion the whole thing was the real deal!

[Utah 12 Driver]

I remember that day clearly, it was to be my first dose of castor oil (apparently I was full of crap at an early age) watch most of the landing between restroom breaks. I was super pissed off to be missing the lunar landing. I took a big chance at an opportune moment to empty the remainders of a full bottle of castor into the old mans beer. I guess he had drank enough he didnt notice, but He was plenty busy for next couple days!

"It was one small step for me and many more steps for Pop"

[supercub]

Amazing after 40 years and hundreds of thousands of people that worked on the Apollo Project and not one of them have come foward saying it was a hoax. I was working at my parents grocery store in the meat dept. We had a small black and white TV with a very snowy picture. Was summer time and being in a resort area was our busiest time of year. I remember there were no customers in the store...........everyone was at their cabins watching TV. A great moment in history.
Brian