A humble giant of a man passed Saturday.
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gafinfanSupporterOPNeil Armstrong may you RIP. As the first of a very small group of adventurers to set foot on a world not our own you reached a level that few can know or understand. You carried on your shoulders the hopes and desires of mankind, you did not let us down and now you join those which is the stuff of legends!
May God bless and keep you always.
http://xfinity.comcast.net/articles/news-science/20120825/US.Neil.Armstrong.Quotes/
This is the only thing I’ve learned: There’s only us. There’s no them. Despots and authoritarians need to make a “them” to have a straw man whom you are against. If you need to make an enemy of “them,” you’ve lost the spirit of us. - Ken Burns of PBS
BigDogsHuntNew MemberGuts and glory shown and achieved for those men of the Apollo missions.
Best story still (well its really a joke) but always cracked me up about Niel Armstrong:
http://www.snopes.com/quotes/mrgorsky.asp
When Apollo Mission Astronaut Neil Armstrong first walked on the moon, he not only gave his famous "One small step for a man; one giant leap for mankind" statement, but followed it by several remarks, including the usual COM traffic between him, the other astronauts, and Mission Control. Before he re-entered the lander, he made the enigmatic remark "Good luck, Mr. Gorsky."
Many people at NASA thought it was a casual remark concerning some rival Soviet Cosmonaut. However, upon checking, there was no Gorsky in either the Russian or American space programs. Over the years, many people have questioned him as to what the "Good luck, Mr. Gorsky" statement meant.
On July 5, in Tampa Bay, FL, while answering questions following a speech, a reporter brought up the 26- year-old question to Armstrong. He finally responded. It seems that Mr. Gorsky had died and so Armstrong felt he could answer the question. When he was a kid, Neil was playing baseball with his brother in the backyard. His brother hit a fly ball which landed in front of his neighbors' bedroom window. The neighbors were Mr. and Mrs. Gorsky. As he leaned down to pick up the ball, he heard Mrs. Gorsky shouting at Mr. Gorsky, "Oral sex? Oral sex you want? You'll get oral sex when the kid next door walks on the moon!"
BDH -
"To me, there are three things we all should do every day of our lives. Number one is laugh. You should laugh every day. Number two is think. You should spend some time in thought. And Number three is, you should have your emotions moved to tears, could be happiness or joy.
"If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that's a full day. That's a heck of a day. You do that seven days a week, you're going to have something special."
Jimmy V. (Mar '93)
MikeHonchoSupporterRIP mr. Armstrong.
Headcoach material wouldn’t want to work somewhere they’re not trusted with actual football decisions.