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Ric

Posted 2018-07-20 12:25 AM (#89705)

Plankowner

Posts: 9162

Location: Upper lefthand corner of the map.

Subject: July 20, 1969

The United States lands first men on the Moon.
I was sitting in the after battery of the USS Bowfin on Lake Union in Seattle listening it happen on the radio. It was Sunday of my Reserve weekend drill.

GaryKC

Posted 2018-07-20 5:29 AM (#89706 - in reply to #89705)

COMSUBBBS

Posts: 3664

Location: Kansas City Missouri

Subject: RE: July 20, 1969

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTBIr65cL_E

Tom McNulty

Posted 2018-07-20 6:16 AM (#89707 - in reply to #89705)

Master and Commander

Posts: 1454

Subject: RE: July 20, 1969

Doc Gardner and I were imbibing at the Acey/Deucy club in Holy Loch during crew turnover time. He being 600G and me 600B.

Sewer Pipe Snipe

Posted 2018-07-20 8:43 AM (#89711 - in reply to #89705)

Master and Commander

Posts: 1796

Location: Albany, GA.

Subject: RE: July 20, 1969

In the Hospital recuperating from the results of a 13 month all expenses paid vacation in Southeast Asia. Barely remember the landing and never heard of Woodstock.

whalen

Posted 2018-07-21 7:53 PM (#89717 - in reply to #89705)

Great Sage of the Sea

Posts: 606

Location: Citrus County FL

Subject: RE: July 20, 1969

Actually, for me, it was July 21, 1969 at 0256 (GMT) at 125ft while making 4kts.

steamboat

Posted 2018-07-22 6:37 AM (#89721 - in reply to #89705)

Master and Commander

Posts: 1814

Location: Boydton, Virginia

Subject: RE: July 20, 1969

Junior year of college and 5 years of Navy under my belt. Working for National Park Service in summers.
Steamboat sends

Runner485

Posted 2018-07-22 9:52 AM (#89723 - in reply to #89705)

COMSUBBBS

Posts: 2670

Location: New Jersey

Subject: RE: July 20, 1969

Watched it on a 19" B&W TV at a friends apartment in Astoria Queens. Drinking beer, and all of us, wives and 5 kids stuffed in this little apartment bedroom, barely able to make out the figures on the screen. I had 3 years with NY Telephone Co. at that time. My time in the enginerooms got me hired as a Watch engineer, taking care of the AC and Ventillation for the Telco buildings I worked in.

Doc Gardner

Posted 2018-07-22 1:01 PM (#89724 - in reply to #89707)

Master and Commander

Posts: 2253

Location: Foothills of the Ozarks

Subject: RE: July 20, 1969

Tom McNulty was sampling every bottle behind the bar and I was being schooled in the fine art of Single Malt consumption. I'm surprised either of us remember it but we did. Such a memorable event.

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