"Looking back, we were really very privileged to live in that thin slice of history where we changed how man looks at himself and what he might become and where he might go," Armstrong said.

Hard to say it any better.

http://www.cnn.com/2....html?hpt=hp_t1

Wonderful piece on the SEALs who secured the splashed-down capsule: http://lightyears.bl...apollo-11-home/

Sure to be much more in the next days.

P.S. Great photo spread: http://life.time.com/history/photos-up-close-with-apollo-11/#1

I thought of you when I first saw this, AS. Yep, it's been an interesting time to be alive.

I liked this one. . .

I thought this was the ex-Chicago Bears coach. Sorry. I used to live and die by Da Bears.

I thought of you when I first saw this, AS. Yep, it's been an interesting time to be alive.

Thx for the recog. Said it here before, but again: like living in the age of da Gama and Magellan.

Or, even more (Clarke upward swell), something close to when we first crawled out of the briny shallows onto dry land.

I was only 9 years old. Nonetheless, suspect 20 July 1969 will not ever be surpassed as the intellectual emotional high point of my life.

Armstrong's 'privileged' is so profoundly the right word.