Re: [asa] Moonwalk: Where was I?

Does being a twinkle in my parents' eyes as they watched the landing count?

Bethany

On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 4:02 PM, George Murphy <GMURPHY10@neo.rr.com> wrote:

> 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<http://home.roadrunner.com/%7Escitheologyglm>
>
>
> ----- 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 19:10:09 2009