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The Rez · 07-20-2009, 03:11 PM

America's Space Program was front and center in my youth. Both my parents
worked for North American Aviation [later Rockwell] for *real* Rocket Scientists.

Below is the link to a photo of my folks standing by the Apollo 11 Command Module
only *two* days after Splashdown.

<http://api.photoshop.com/home_5a26803752f949e4973a71ca7931c6ac/adobe-px-assets/af915b81fe594b59ab0563e89ed6563b>

NASA celebrates this 40th Anniversary vividly.

<http://www.nasa.gov/home/>

As a kid, I was allowed to meet each of the Astronauts from Mercury thru
Gemini thru Apollo.

John Stewart's song *Armstrong* appeared on 'Cannons in the Rain.' I played
it immediately for my folks. Mama took a cassette into work so the *real*
Rocket Scientists could hear the song.

I don't know exactly who all she played the tape for - but beaucoups fine
Rocket Folk heard it. And beaucoups Rocket Folk bought the album, only
to re-discover John in the process. Kingston Trio was in their DNA already.

'Radio air play' and 'public acclaim' aren't the measure we here choose when
we speak of The Music and it's Value

John's *Armstrong* lived it's own internal person-to-person mighty life in the
hearts of so many of the very people that made the song necessary to be written
. . . and is being revisited today.

'Armstrong the Man' and 'Armstrong the Song' are cherished by more Starmen
than you . . . or I . . . can conceive. Mama was a fairly dangerous Cherokee!

Dad died in 1990 at the age of 90. Mama passed just last September at 92yrs.
M.W. "Jack" Bell - Mama's boss for 30yrs lives today, albeit in the final-stages
of Parkinson's' Mr. Bell is quite keenly aware today of both "Armstrongs"

Look up,

Rex

Be the Moon
[Psalm 148:3]

07-20-2009, 03:11 PM	#1
The Rez Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Balboa, CA, US of A Posts: 598	40yrs - The Moon and a Song called Armstrong America's Space Program was front and center in my youth. Both my parents worked for North American Aviation [later Rockwell] for real Rocket Scientists. Below is the link to a photo of my folks standing by the Apollo 11 Command Module only two days after Splashdown. <http://api.photoshop.com/home_5a26803752f949e4973a71ca7931c6ac/adobe-px-assets/af915b81fe594b59ab0563e89ed6563b> NASA celebrates this 40th Anniversary vividly. <http://www.nasa.gov/home/> As a kid, I was allowed to meet each of the Astronauts from Mercury thru Gemini thru Apollo. John Stewart's song Armstrong appeared on 'Cannons in the Rain.' I played it immediately for my folks. Mama took a cassette into work so the real Rocket Scientists could hear the song. I don't know exactly who all she played the tape for - but beaucoups fine Rocket Folk heard it. And beaucoups Rocket Folk bought the album, only to re-discover John in the process. Kingston Trio was in their DNA already. 'Radio air play' and 'public acclaim' aren't the measure we here choose when we speak of The Music and it's Value John's Armstrong lived it's own internal person-to-person mighty life in the hearts of so many of the very people that made the song necessary to be written . . . and is being revisited today. 'Armstrong the Man' and 'Armstrong the Song' are cherished by more Starmen than you . . . or I . . . can conceive. Mama was a fairly dangerous Cherokee! Dad died in 1990 at the age of 90. Mama passed just last September at 92yrs. M.W. "Jack" Bell - Mama's boss for 30yrs lives today, albeit in the final-stages of Parkinson's' Mr. Bell is quite keenly aware today of both "Armstrongs" Look up, Rex Be the Moon [Psalm 148:3] __________________ I came to Love the Music Before I came to Be [Psalm 139:13]