OUR DAILY LEDGER
So, today, I am writing about another Armstrong. And, for another reason. I had turned 11 in the same month, July 1969, when Apollo 11 had landed on the Moon. I was in fifth standard studying in a local school… And, I still remember how I was coming back home, all jumping with my friends… Hey, we were given a holiday! The reason? Man had landed on the Moon! And, Neil Armstrong was this man! No Television sets, dear… still we kids knew how a man had landed on the Moon! My dad was a huge fan of J.F.Kennedy. He kept telling us that it was President Kennedy’s dream to send Man to the Moon, before the decade ended, and bring him safely home. President Kennedy did not live to see his own dream come true… “He is watching it from right up there, sitting on his rocking chair!” our dad would beam as he dramatized. We kids simply believed in what our dad would tell us! “A small ...