I was there live for the lift off, and watched the landing with pure rapture.
Like others who have posted here, I greatly admired Armstrong's humility, and the way he lived his life doing engineering, aviating and the other things he loved instead of making himself into a "celebrity." For that he is all the more a hero.
"Io sono stanco, sono imbigliato, and I wan't everyone here to know, there ain't gonna be no trouble from me..Don Corleone..Cicc' a port!"
"I stood in the courtroom like a fool."
"I am Constanza: Lord of the idiots."
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