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One Giant Leap for Mankind knocked off Addie's story Most who were adults in that year remember where they were July 20, 1969. As we mark the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing, I picture two highlights - one on the black and white television and one in the rocker watching it. By Linda Waggener On a hot July 20, 1969, I was in the unairconditioned home of my outrageously awesome grandmother Addie Turner Leftwich for a good visit over lunch of pinto beans, fresh garden tomatoes and buttered cornbread, after which the house would quiet as she watched her "show", her favorite soap opera, As The World Turns. The black and white television was on in the front room with Walter Cronkite announcing the news of America's astronauts landing on the surface of the moon. He was taking viewers through the historic moments when Neil Armstrong became the first human to set foot on the moon. We watched for a little while before I had to go back to work at The Edmonton Herald News. The black phone beside her rocker rang and as I got up to leave I heard her agree with the caller, "Ida, I think it's awful that they've knocked off our story for this old moon stuff." Sisters Addie and Ida talked every day about their "story," so involved that you'd think it was a member of the family that was under discussion. Not even the first moon landing could get in the way of their devotion to the program. The sisters were in that very small percentage of elders who didn't think landing on the moon amounted to a hill of beans, and others who thought it was made up fake news. This story was posted on 2019-07-20 07:52:40
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