In 1969 I was in Vietnam making the world safe for democracy so I was out of town when Neal Armstrong took that first step. But that was the only year that I ever consistently kept a diary. (auto correct wants this to say dairy) so I thought I’d find my diary and see what I wrote about that historic event…I didn’t mention it at all. Here is the page with the relevant day:

The lunar landing was on July 20th. I next wrote on July 24 and it was about work and me. I did write down an old joke:

“If only we had some bread we could make a ham sandwich if we had some ham.”

One of the recurring themes in my journal is that I’m going to start writing more. So in that vein and missing having recorded my thoughts about Neal Armstrong I’m going to try adding a weekly post of thoughts on the politics of the times. We shall see. First it need a catchy name.

Photo credit: My friend John Bolby took the picture of me holding the gun using my 35mm Canon camera. I developed it in the darkroom on base and added the crosshairs.