{80} Moon Landing

Jul 20

“All great and honorable actions are accompanied with great difficulties, and both must be enterprises and overcome with answerable courage.” These words were spoken by William Bradford in 1630, referring to the expeditious establishment of the Plymouth Colony on the shores of the unestablished United States.

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Three hundred and thirty-nine years after these wise words had been said, the innate wisdom in them was being applied once again by a now-established United States of America as they, Apollo 11, embarked and succeeded in landing humans on our earth’s moon for the first time in the history of our species.

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Fifty years later we remember and honor this, very truly, giant leap for mankind.