We were watching television after school and the news about this Man --
Now he is older and so am I. Grandma is long gone but I believe she may have been right. We've been to the Moon but we are not ON the moon. Apparently we ran out of money.
Monday, February 20, 2012
Fifty Years Ago
I was ten years old and in the fifth grade. I distinctly remember sitting on my grandmother's couch in Monona and she looked at me and said "IF God had meant for man to be on the moon; he would have put us there."
We were watching television after school and the news about this Man --
John Glenn as he orbited the Earth THREE times!
Now he is older and so am I. Grandma is long gone but I believe she may have been right. We've been to the Moon but we are not ON the moon. Apparently we ran out of money.
We were watching television after school and the news about this Man --
Now he is older and so am I. Grandma is long gone but I believe she may have been right. We've been to the Moon but we are not ON the moon. Apparently we ran out of money.
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I have a newspaper from John Glenn's flight somewhere in the shed. I suppose it's now an antique - as am I.
ReplyDeleteThere really are so many things more important than the space program to spend $$ on so I understand the grounding of the space program. I never tired of seeing those ships come back to Earth. We lived in a remarkable era didn't we?
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