Where Were You When They Walked on the Moon?

**nicster** · 07-20-2009, 12:39 PM

I was just watching the news & they were reporting on the 1969 Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin walk on the moon, 40 years ago! I was 15 years old attending an international convention with my parents in Vancouver, BC. I was getting off the elevator at the Washington Hotel and the TV in the lobby had the video of that now famous first step on the moon. How about the rest of you? Where were you & what were you doing??

**VWL Mom** · 07-20-2009, 12:48 PM

My mom was at work and my dad who was off that day and I were on our boat in Atlantic Highlands, NJ. He was on the fly bridge fixing something and he had a little 8" tv up there. He called me out of the cabin and we watched it together.

**It'sWDW4me** · 07-20-2009, 12:52 PM

Of course there is the debate as to whether they did, indeed, walk on the moon 40 years ago!

Real or fake, I was warm and cozy tucked up in my mom's belly - I was born that November.

**Daisy'sMom** · 07-20-2009, 12:58 PM

I was watching in the living room with my Dad. It really didn't dawn on me how special an event it was, Mom had passed away several months before and I felt like I was in a fog.

**nicster** · 07-20-2009, 01:02 PM

Originally Posted by Daisy'sMom

I was watching in the living room with my Dad. It really didn't dawn on me how special an event it was, Mom had passed away several months before and I felt like I was in a fog.

Sorry to bring back such a sad time. I know what you mean by the fog when you are grieving...

**faline** · 07-20-2009, 01:05 PM

My husband (who was my boyfriend at the time) and I watched it with my parents in the living room of their house. Both my parents are gone now.

**Briansmom** · 07-20-2009, 01:23 PM

I was nine years old and we were sitting in the family room watching it on TV....it was very personal to us. We lived in Merritt Island and both of my parents worked in the space program...my mom was a secretary and my dad was an engineer. He even brought home some of that foil looking stuff that protected the Lunar Module. That stuff was tough! I have a scrap book that he kept all his years working in the space program. It is so cool to see pictures of him working on the space craft. I can't believe it has been forty years.

**DVC2004** · 07-20-2009, 01:30 PM

LOL wasn't here yet! Not even a glimmer in my parents eyes.

**Scar** · 07-20-2009, 01:30 PM

I so much wish I could remember that. I was 1 month shy of 4. My parents said I was in the room but they don’t remember if I was awake or not.

The History Channel is replaying CBS’s coverage tonight at 8:30 followed by “Moonshot”, a really good documentary.

Originally Posted by It'sWDW4me

Of course there is the debate as to whether they did, indeed, walk on the moon 40 years ago!

Every geologist that has ever examined moon rocks agrees that they are not from earth.

**ILoveLegos** · 07-20-2009, 01:56 PM

Originally Posted by DVC2004

LOL wasn't here yet! Not even a glimmer in my parents eyes.

Ditto!

**coloradowendyl** · 07-20-2009, 01:56 PM

10 yrs old at Girl Scout camp in Columbia, SC.

No TV there...we listened to the radio on a portable radio in our tent!

Wendy

**Marceline** · 07-20-2009, 02:08 PM

I wasn't on the planet mahself.

**Diznee4Me** · 07-20-2009, 02:25 PM

I was just shy of 8 months old so probably lying around somewhere screamig for attention or food.

**SBETigg** · 07-20-2009, 02:31 PM

I was just a baby, too, but it is pretty cool that it happened in my lifetime.

**elmjimmlm** · 07-20-2009, 02:34 PM

Originally Posted by DVC2004

LOL wasn't here yet! Not even a glimmer in my parents eyes.

same here...not for another 3 years...

**Ian** · 07-20-2009, 03:05 PM

I was 13 days old and only know this because it's family lore, but I was laying on the sofa in my Grandparents' living room with Mom and Dad.

**Seasonscraps** · 07-20-2009, 03:06 PM

I was a baby but my mother said she sat me down to watch it with her. I guess you could say I was there in body but not spirit.

**wdwfansince75** · 07-20-2009, 03:49 PM

I was at the Naval Post Graduate School in Monterey, CA. DW and I took DS#1, then 4, and DD#1, 22 mo, to Sunset State Beach, on the Monterey Bay. Even in July, the waters of the Monterey Bay were quite cold. The kids and I were making sand castles, as we listened to the events. If memory serves, the walk started early afternoon on a Sunday.

**diz_girl** · 07-20-2009, 03:56 PM

I was two days old

and in the nursery of Albert Einstein Medical Center in Philadelphia, so obviously I don't remember it.

Mom said that she watched from her hospital bed, but she didn't say that I was with her at the time, so I was probably in the nursery. She was a little annoyed that the walk didn't happen on the day that I was born, but she would have been a bit too busy to watch it if it happened on my birthday.

**DisneyDog** · 07-20-2009, 04:14 PM

I was born one month and 2 two days later...also at Einstein Hospital in Philadelphia

Wish I had been able to witness that. I missed Woodstock too. All the good stuff happened that summer right before I was born.

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