The fiftieth anniversary is approaching, so perhaps it will be interesting to compare our memories of the moment. I realise this probably excludes two thirds of the board, or more. Anyway here’s mine:
I had only just turned five so it’s all a bit fuzzy but I remember the family had driven that day for a short stay with friends. I’m pretty certain it was Uncle Mac and Auntie Lil in Waterlooville.
We must have arrived late afternoon because I don’t think we’d been there long when I said I was tired and wanted to go to bed. I was very sick about a year earlier and was a bit of a runt in my early years so maybe i got tired quite easily.
So my memory of the first moon landing is lying in an unusual bed, still light outside, drifting in and out of sleep with various people coming in now and then to make absolutely sure I didn’t want to see the men land on the moon.
I had only just turned five so it’s all a bit fuzzy but I remember the family had driven that day for a short stay with friends. I’m pretty certain it was Uncle Mac and Auntie Lil in Waterlooville.
We must have arrived late afternoon because I don’t think we’d been there long when I said I was tired and wanted to go to bed. I was very sick about a year earlier and was a bit of a runt in my early years so maybe i got tired quite easily.
So my memory of the first moon landing is lying in an unusual bed, still light outside, drifting in and out of sleep with various people coming in now and then to make absolutely sure I didn’t want to see the men land on the moon.
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