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Subject: [Leica] Moon landing - where were you?
From: jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)
Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2019 07:35:06 +0530
References: <bab4d500-8185-ef49-4b8e-ff44687d7ce4@gmail.com>

I was in college at that time. We were still in the clutches of full fledged 
Fabian Socialist hell in those days in India, so there was no TV service at 
all in the country (which made a pan India entrance, gingerly, though only 
in urban areas in 1982, for the Asian Games). I remember hearing it on 
radio, followed by the photographs in LIFE magazine which followed soon 
after. 

Cheers
Jayanand

Sent from my iPad

> On 23-Jul-2019, at 07:24, Peter Klein via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> 
> wrote:
> 
> In July 1969, I was working at a summer camp in rural Massachusetts.  The 
> night of July 20, when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on the moon, 
> we counselors were invited up to the camp director's house to watch the 
> moon walk. The adults were all out for the night, so we had a critical 
> mass of unsupervised 15-22 year-olds. With predicable results.  Many of 
> the assembled used the opportunity to tell raunchy jokes, smoke 
> cigarettes, and if they had a willing partner, make out (*). I remember 
> being irritated that it was hard to understand what the astronauts were 
> saying. I was absolutely enthralled by the moon landing, space-nerd that I 
> was (and still am).
> 
> At one point, I remember wondering if we could ever look at the moon the 
> same way again.  Would the sight of the moon still be romantic, now that 
> people had walked on it?   Walking back to my cabin later, I got my 
> answer.  The full moon was just as romantic as ever, maybe more so. And I 
> so wished that I had a girlfriend to make out with under it.   :-)  That 
> would have to wait a couple of years.
> 
> --Peter
> 
> (*) For people for whom English is not your first language, "making out" 
> is mid-century slang for hugging, kissing, petting, etc., as long as the 
> "etc." didn't go beyond a certain point.
> 
> 
> 
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