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USMC 2571
07-20-18, 09:39 AM
Apollo 11 moon walk on this day back in 1969. I watched it on television. Those of you who are old enough to have been around then, did you watch it on TV?

FistFu68
07-20-18, 10:31 AM
Sure do was sitting in a Georgetown bar called the Tombs,down the street from Bethesda Naval hospital on a convalescent afternoon leave with two casts on,watching it on the Bar Black & White TV while i was getting inebriated

USMC 2571
07-20-18, 10:50 AM
That's the best way to do it, Jack.

oldtop
07-20-18, 01:34 PM
yep, sitting on the sofa in my parent's den

Mongoose
07-20-18, 04:26 PM
I was in Philly Naval Hospital. I watched it with other Marines in the Wards Day room.

Zulu 36
07-20-18, 05:14 PM
Watched it at home with my family. I wasn't old enough to be in the Corps yet, unlike some of these other old guys. :beer:

Mongoose
07-21-18, 05:46 AM
Chris, you was just a sweet little boy.......

Zulu 36
07-21-18, 06:16 AM
I still am, Billy. Sweet anyway. Not so little anymore.

Old Marine
07-21-18, 09:07 AM
Watched it from Naval Hospital Balboa, with my daughter who was a patient at the hospital.

Rattlesnake
07-21-18, 11:52 PM
Didn't have the pleasure...I was in the Nam.

Mongoose
07-22-18, 06:25 AM
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Didn't have the pleasure...I was in the Nam.

Rattlesnake
07-25-18, 12:57 AM
Yep, I was on my 2nd tour in the Nam. I remember hearing the news on Arm Force Radio Viet Nam.