Anyway, there's Generals, Heads of State and other politicians but Armstrong is perhaps above them all. He took the task and the risk of achieving man's greatest feat. He indeed deserves a State funeral and at Federal expense. This shouldn't even be questioned or argued. To those who experienced that moment in 1969 it's as clear as day and just as powerful in our memory of America's greatest Pioneer.. He raised America to her greatest sense of patriotic nationalism she's ever experienced. On par with America's triumphs in past wars, this event also symbolized the conquering of our rival, the USSR. You could feel what America did on July 29, 1969.. The pride was in the air and far away on the moon stood the most humble man that gave us this gift. He gave America one of her greatest moments. God bless Neil Armstong.
Absolutely; but even while watching, I thought Armstrong walking on the moon was almost entirely an American accomplishment, not an individual one.
President Nixon invited Teddy Kennedy to attend the Apollo 11 launch but he turned down the invitation. If he had accepted it there wouldn't have been that party at Chappaquiddick. Mary Jo Kopechne would have lived to see Neil Armstrong walk on the moon, and might be alive today to watch his funeral on TV.