Apollo 11's 40th anniversary

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by innerSpaceman

Yep, I have all those same "remember exactly where I was and what was happening" effects for everything on N.A.'s list ... plus, the subject of this thread, the moon walk.

Of them all, the moon walk was the only happy one. The rest filled me with incredible sadness.

I'm trying to think of any other pre-moon landing one that would count as a "good" one. As far as I can come up with, the moon landing stands alone in ALL of US history, either pre or post-iSm, as the only positive "everyone remembers where they were" moment.

Fall of the Berlin Wall perhaps?

Lou Gehrig's speech (if that can be considered "good")?

I Have a Dream. Good, but only necessary for a bad reason, so that's kind of mixed.

Just not quite the same impact as, say, JFK getting shot.

iSm, care to provide some examples of these incredible good moments that everyone stopped in their collective tracks to witness that we youngin's had the temerity to be born to late for/