Word: moone
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Triumph on the Moon...
...spent most of my life in a Los Angeles slum and my last four years of high school in white, middle-class America. If I had a choice between the two for my children, it would not be the latter. However, I confess to being excited about the moon landing. I would have felt the same had it been Russia or Red China. It's the first time in my life I've seen the possibility of a reprieve for mankind...
...days and so in love with ourselves and our causes-myself included. It seems to me that we've needed something bigger than all of us for some time now to put mankind in the right perspective. I would not say, "If we can put men on the moon, why can't we build adequate housing or feed all our citizens?" I would ask, "Why can't the trip to the moon and exploration of space inspire us to see social injustices, our cruel war, and our long and foolish fight with nature...
...guess what I've been trying to say is that the accomplishment of the goals I believe in is more important to me than labels. If we give the moon to "middle America," it would be the equivalent of giving Christ to the Christians...
...full impact of the event will not be felt for some time to come, perhaps years. Much as the Wright brothers' first flight and Lindbergh's epic changed forever the environment of man on earth, so will the moon landing change forever man's dependence upon his own earth for survival. The cosmos is his. Its vastness, which holds all the answers to life and death, is but now space to be transited in this effort...