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COMSUBBBS
Posts: 2540
Location: Wappingers Falls, NY | Subject: Apollo 11
OK Folks...where were all of you when this all began...me, I had just graduated high school, looking to starting college in the fall...and sitting in sheer wonderment of all that was going to happen on this historic space flight.
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Master and Commander
Posts: 2253
Location: Foothills of the Ozarks | Subject: Where was I?
White Hat Club in Holy Loch watching it all unfold on a B&W TV; left a few days later for patrol; didn't get to see them come back.
We felt pretty proud watching that.
Edited by Doc Gardner 2009-07-18 12:02 PM
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Plankowner
Posts: 9165
Location: Upper lefthand corner of the map. | Subject: RE: Apollo 11
I was sitting in the after battery of the USS Bowfin moored at the Naval Reserve center at the south end of Lake Union in Seattle listening to it live on radio. I got home in time to take Polaroids off the TV screen of the first steps. I still have the local newspaper. |
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Great Sage of the Sea
Posts: 597
Location: Tucson, Arizona | Subject: RE: Apollo 11
In my apartment in Alexandria Va having my first interlude with to be my wife Sharon Philips (now onher eternal patrol). We were young and giddy and after the one small step for man and a leap for mankind we did that for abot 15 minutes in different steps creating our own walk on the moon (my rug). It is rememerable for myself and my two girls. Now a key part of their diary.
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Master and Commander
Posts: 1814
Location: Boydton, Virginia | Subject: RE: Apollo 11
I was living in Munising, Michigan (UP), been out of Navy 5 years, working summers for National Park Service, between Junior an Senior years at Northern Mich. Univ. Had been married 2 years. Had the whole world and many great adventures ahead of us (or so we thought). My Dad had died just a couple months before. The late '60s were a temoltuous time for all who lived through them...war, assasinations, inflation. The moon landing was the only bright spot.
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Master and Commander
Posts: 2357
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steamboat - 2009-07-19 4:33 AM
The late '60s were a temoltuous time for all who lived through them...war, assasinations, inflation. The moon landing was the only bright spot.
Steamboat sends
There was The Beatles too mate, how lucky you were to be old enough to actually remember them. I have vague recollections of the Moon Landing and The Beatles.
Brave men they were ( the Astronauts, not 'J P G & R'! ) I truly cannot imagine doing that....I wonder what they actually thought about it all, I suppose one of them has written a book about it, I should look it up sometime.
All the best Steamboat, take care!! 
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COMSUBBBS
Posts: 2540
Location: Wappingers Falls, NY | Subject: RE: Apollo 11...and the passing of a legend...
Walter Cronkite, yesterday at age 92. One of the few who I respected as a journalist and who reported on this very important time in history with no "cover-up emotions". |
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Master and Commander
Posts: 1890
Location: Patterson, New York | Subject: RE: Apollo 11
The 657 Gold crew was in port in New London.
I was with my wife in a pub and we watched it on TV.
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Great Sage of the Sea
Posts: 606
Location: Citrus County FL | Subject: RE: Apollo 11
Thomas Courtien - 2009-07-18 5:20 PM The 657 Gold crew was in port in New London. I was with my wife in a pub and we watched it on TV. The 618 Gold crew was at sea. Are you sure you weren't in that pub with my wife? |
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Master and Commander
Posts: 1405
Location: Houston, TX (Best state in the US) | Subject: RE: Apollo 11
whalen - 2009-07-18 5:17 PM
Thomas Courtien - 2009-07-18 5:20 PM The 657 Gold crew was in port in New London. I was with my wife in a pub and we watched it on TV. The 618 Gold crew was at sea. Are you sure you weren't in that pub with my wife?
It was probably Beeghly! |
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Mess cooking
Posts: 42
Location: Fremont Ca | Subject: RE: Apollo 11
I was in the waiting room. My daughter was born 7/20/69 Lost her to cancer 4 year ago so I will go to her gave site and have a 40th birthday party Joe J DBF |
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Master and Commander
Posts: 1107
Location: Tucson AZ | Subject: RE: Apollo 11
Watched it on TV in our Groton apartment, with some neighbors. I was a nuke in PCU Seahorse, and we were in the final prep stages for commissioning in a couple of months ... gluing up wood-grain Formica on every flat surface larger than a few square inches, installing lockers in every free nook and cranny, painting our hull number (669) on the EB water tower, etc., etc. ... those of you who are plank-owners know the drill!
Edited by Flapper 2009-07-18 10:18 PM
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Plankowner
Posts: 23
Location: Riverside, CA | Subject: RE: Apollo 11
I had the Duty on USS Permit, and we were tied up to the pier at SubBase Pearl. We were trying to rig a coat hanger & tinfoil TV antenna to get a good enough signal to watch the First Steps on the Moon. I can't honestly say if we were successful or not. I know I've seen the video of those first steps many times, just don't know if I saw it live. Quite something when you think about it.... we were on a highly sophisticated weapon of war trying to watch an amazing and significant technogical scientific event and we couldn't get the %$##*&ing TV antenna to work!!! Go figure! Stoops was part of that Permit Crew too but I don't remember if you were in the Duty Section or were at home Dave. |
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Master and Commander
Posts: 1405
Location: Houston, TX (Best state in the US) | Subject: RE: Apollo 11
Corny - 2009-07-18 6:06 PM
Stoops was part of that Permit Crew too but I don't remember if you were in the Duty Section or were at home Dave.
Salt Water Smith, and Rammer (Rgoer Ramsey) off the seadragon and I were in the barracks drinking Jack Daniels and watching it on tv. I think Lenny Hines and Craighead were there also.....
It was my birthday and that made it special also. I think the next year on my birthday, I was in the middle of a test discharge of the main battery taking the ICV's while we were on patrol or a weekly op....I mentioned to a shipmate that it was a hell of a way to spend your birthday. He showed up about 5 minutes later and presented me with a fifth of Crown Royal. I about crapped.....then here comes the EMC(SS) who didn't get along with me and vice versa and I thought, well, now I'm screwed! Turned out we all had a shot, put the bottle up, and continued with the discharge.
Edited by Stoops 2009-07-18 6:50 PM
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Great Sage of the Sea
Posts: 781
Location: Port Orchard WA | Subject: RE: Apollo 11
depends on which part of the flight I was in the dumb study room (auditorium) at NPS Bainbridge for the landing alot of the rest of it I was in Fiddlers Green which explains why I was in the Dumb Study room a lot I was also in dumb study for the other event of that summer (Woodstock) less than a month later. Good thing or I might not have ever made it to Submarines as the 4 that did go did not get back in time from liberty
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Senior Crew
Posts: 183
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I was sitting in the living room of my Grandmothers house. She had traveled from Kansas to Oregon in a covered wagon behind a team of mules in 1903. I was in awe of what I was seeing. She totally excepted the feat as just one more step in the many previous firsts she had experienced in her life.(manned flight-cars-radio-tv-etc...) |
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Senior Crew
Posts: 183
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I meant accepted rather than excepted....
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Great Sage of the Sea
Posts: 602
Location: Visalia, Ca. | Subject: RE: Apollo 11
Just finished my Freshman year in High School.
Family was in L.A. visiting my mother's father's Aunt in a nursing home in Norco.
Watched it on TV in the Rec room.
Had the pleasure of meeting Buzz Aldrin & Jim Lovell at National Space Society conventions when I was active in that organization. We used to joke about submariners being more suited for spaceflight than fighter jocks.
"For the Eagle has landed,
Tell your children when...
Time won't tie us down to dust again."
(Hope Eyrie, Leslie Fish)
Edited by Donald L. Johnson 2009-07-20 11:27 AM
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Crew
Posts: 70
Location: Naples, Fl | Subject: RE: Apollo 11
I was 3 years out of the service and going to school in Santa Batbara. Had a job at
Shakeys Pizza in Goleta, brought my B&W Tv and we all watched with pizza and beer.
Jack 62-66
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COMSUBBBS
Posts: 6180
Location: Summerville, SC | Subject: RE: Apollo 11
Received my discharge Jan 8, 1969 and in july 0f '69 I was bouncing my butt in an 18 wheel tanker hauling liquid asphalt somewhere here in South Carolina or North Carolina. |
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COMSUBBBS
Posts: 3202
Location: Alexandria, Virginia | Subject: RE: Apollo 11
I was at home (studying for my CPM exam). There was a chain of gas stations at the time called GULF stations. When you visited a GULF station they gave you a sheet of cardboard that you could punch the fusilage and landing gear out of, and fold them in one of those "poke tab A into slot B" excercises....When you finished it, you had a fairly accurate rendition of the moon lander. Solveig (my wife) was simply spellbound...She had a canopy bed and I took a spool of her sewing thread looped it over an overhead spar of the canopy frame and suspended the moon lander from the spar and slowly lowered it to the bedspread below as the moment to moment narrative described what was going on....Solveig kept watching that little folded cardboard replica I was lowering, like she was actually watching the event unfold....silly what Patti's post has blown the dust of time, off of. DEX |
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