Re: [asa] Moonwalk: Where was I?

This sounds eerily like my experience - except I was the a parent rather
than the child. I'd just finished my 1st year of a real college teaching
job & we still had an old portable with a loose back. Our first daughter,
10 months old at the time but toddling around pretty well, called the TV the
no-no because that's what we said whenever she started to wander around
behind it. We kept her in front for the moon landing & walk but it didn't
mean a lot to her!

There's ano question about the importance of the 1st landing on the moon.
But in some ways as memorable was the Apollo 8 astronauts reading the
Genesis 1 creation story to earth after seeing the lunar farside on the
previous Christmas Eve.

Shalom
George
http://home.roadrunner.com/~scitheologyglm

----- Original Message -----
From: <mrb22667@kansas.net>
To: "Freeman, Louise Margaret" <lfreeman@mbc.edu>
Cc: <asa@calvin.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, July 14, 2009 6:52 PM
Subject: RE: [asa] Moonwalk: Where was I?

> Finally, amidst all you gray beards out there, someone comes along who is
> my
> age, Louise! I too was two years old and missed the whole event as I was
> asleep
> on my dad's lap. No memories except those shared by everybody later
> seeing the
> reruns. Our family had no TV until dad decided to buy a black & white
> unit just
> for the event. I later rendered the unit inoperable due to some
> scientific
> experimentation that involved plugging pennies through the cooling slits
> on the
> back. As a result... spent most of my remaining childhood years without a
> TV
> again. Sigh. Such deprivation. Was cruelly forced to read books and
> play
> outside instead.
>
> --Merv
>
> Quoting "Freeman, Louise Margaret" <lfreeman@mbc.edu>:
>
>> The moonwalk is one of my earliest memories; I was a month short of my
>> third
>>
>> birthday but I remember watching it with my older brother and
>> grandmother.
>>
>> __
>> Louise M. Freeman, PhD
>> Psychology Dept
>> Mary Baldwin College
>> Staunton, VA 24401
>> 540-887-7326
>> FAX 540-887-7121
>>
>
>
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Received on Tue Jul 14 19:03:09 2009