About the moon landing

[squatting dog]

Got me to thinking. Hard to know where I was when they landed on the moon. I've narrowed it down to the dense jungle, or the muddy jungle. Definitely not the rice paddies at that time. I do know that I only found out about it some time after it actually happened. (SIGH), moon landing, Woodstock, Counter culture free loving... missed out on so much.

 

[hollydolly]

I was 14 and in the second year of secondary school...

 

[ohioboy]

I was pushing 14, summer recess, after that, exactly, unknown. I did meet Alan Bean in person once at a book signing. I always wanted to meet a man that walked on the moon, very nice.

 

[Nathan]

7/20/69:
I had dropped out of high school and was working in a sheet metal shop in Culver City, making panels for room size computers.

On 10/3/69 I began Basic Training at Ft. Ord, Calif.

 

[LSWOTE]

I was 15 and on summer break. I lived on a farm and I think I had spent the day fixing fence.

 

[SetWave]

Luckily, I was stateside shortly before my discharge. Stepped outside to stare into the sky at the moon.

 

[Chet]

I was just discharged from the Air Force the previous year, and I watched it at my parents' home while laying on the couch.

 

[RadishRose]

I don't remember.

 

[Lewkat]

AT home, watching it on T.V.

 

[helenbacque]

I was married with 4 children and was at a business meeting at the Greenbrier Hotel in White Springs Springs, W VA. The landing was shown in the small theater at the hotel. Just at the breathtaking moment, another guest (who was not very interested and had fallen asleep) let out a soft snore.

 

[fuzzybuddy]

I was Corpsman, in the Eye Clinic, US Navy Medical Center, Bethesda, Md. We had a B&W portable TV , sitting on a chair, in one of the Dr's offices. You knew it would be one of those exact moments, like when Kennedy was shot.

 

[tbeltrans]

Everybody went to the one neighbor's house who had the first color TV in the neighborhood to watch it. Though the actual moon landing was in B/W, the earth-bound material was in color. This was back when a union plumber made more than my dad as a research specialist at Lockheed with a Master's degree from Columbia University.

Tony

 

[Sassycakes]

I was at home watching it alone while my husband was at his naval base right before getting home. I was only interested in his returning home.

 

[cdestroyer]

I was 22. Stuck in long beach ca waiting for our turn to take the ship to the east coast for overhaul....polishing the brass..

 

[Murrmurr]

I watched it on TV with my family. Grampa couldn't get over it. (I was 14)

 

[hollydolly]

I watched it on TV with my family. Grampa couldn't get over it. (I was 14)

You're 6 weeks older than me....

 

[Murrmurr]

You're 6 weeks older than me....

Still not old enough to boss you around, though.

 

[Llynn]

I was in the Navy, assigned to a ship home ported in San Diego. We had just come back from WestPac. I watched the whole thing on a small b&w TV set.

 

[Pepper]

I was in Piccadilly Circus. A hippie floated by wearing loose white clothes chanting "We've landed on the moon."

 

[tbeltrans]

Still not old enough to boss you around, though.

I was 16, but not at all bossy.

Get back in your room. Oops! Sorry about that. Sometimes I just can't help myself.

Tony

 

[Uptosnuff]

I was 9 years old, enjoying the summer break. I remember watching it on TV. That experience brought the whole country together.

 

[Murrmurr]

I was in Piccadilly Circus. A hippie floated by wearing loose white clothes chanting "We've landed on the moon."

And maybe she did, on the good ship LSD.

 

[Pepper]

And maybe she did, on the good ship LSD.

It was a he and he did have long, flowing brown hair.

 

[Fyrefox]

I was a high school kid working a summer job at a folding paper box factory. I stayed up late watching the grainy lunar transmission footage on my small screen black & white TV.

 

[HoneyNut]

I was 13 and forced by my mother to watch it on TV (it was an important historic event she said). I had no idea someday it would make it possible to be able to post on a thread about 'where were you when').