Neil Armstrong,My First Childhood Hero

I will try to type this without crying.

Neil Armstrong was my very first childhood hero.I will admit this,just this once ,I watched Neil Armstrong walk on the moon as a little girl.And my Grandma filmed it from the television using a Super 8 camera,with a blinding white eye bulb......we'd replay that whenever we visited Pittsburgh each summer.....

When my family moved into a new apartment and I was 5,my mom asked me what color do I want my panelled walls.To which I replied "White", because that was the color of our Astronauts space suits.

I had cardboard cutouts of the Apollo Astronauts on my walls,and they were still on there when I started Kindergarten.The first thing I ever wanted to BE when "I grew up", was an Astronaut,like Neil Armstrong.

And my parents,they never told me there was anything I "could not be"...there was none of that "girls don't do this" crap from them.

So.......we lost a true hero Saturday.And man...I cried a lot.More than fror any recent public figure....more than so far I have for my Grandpa..,....or Michael Jackson. (Well maybe I took MJ's death hard,to be honest....)

RIP

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Comment by Ritalin-Bunny on August 27, 2012 at 6:16pm: Tragic, and they stripped him of all his "tour de France" titles too, just before he died. Why would they do that to an astronaut who walked on the moon and was an international champion cyclist as well?

What an incredible life he must have lead.

Sponsor Comment by Odinsbacklash on September 17, 2012 at 4:15pm: I hope you were being funny.

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