And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Monday, August 27, 2018
The Apollo 15 lunar module “Falcon” set against the stark moonscape, August 2, 1971. Photo by astronaut Jim Irwin.
what absolute heroic people there are out there. travel to the moon, stay awhile, walk around, set up instrument systems, and return safely to the earth. all accomplished while using equipment manufactured by the lowest bidder and operated by a government agency. somehow I always missed the seeing the support people with the wheel barrows used to carry the astronauts balls after they returned. It remains the most vivid memory I have of my dad; of us all watching the first landing on the moon. what an astounding feat of bravery and engineering that was. that they were the first without knowing that it could be done. we were all of us inspired by the entire space program to be the best we could be...
We used to do those sorts of things.
ReplyDeleteThe astronauts tromped all over the place.
DeleteI did not ever think that I would be one of the first to see mankind on another planet and one of the last. Dammit.
Deletewhat absolute heroic people there are out there. travel to the moon, stay awhile, walk around, set up instrument systems, and return safely to the earth. all accomplished while using equipment manufactured by the lowest bidder and operated by a government agency. somehow I always missed the seeing the support people with the wheel barrows used to carry the astronauts balls after they returned.
ReplyDeleteIt remains the most vivid memory I have of my dad; of us all watching the first landing on the moon. what an astounding feat of bravery and engineering that was. that they were the first without knowing that it could be done. we were all of us inspired by the entire space program to be the best we could be...