Re: your July 20 article, "A space odyssey":
I thank The Star for publishing the letters from (almost) all of us who remember July 20, 1969!
I remember it well. We were living in our little house in North Hollywood, where I was working at Lockheed Burbank as an engineer. I dragged my son, Mark, age 7, and all the neighbor kids, who were out playing baseball in the street, into the living room to watch on our big new 21-inch black and white TV "something you kids will be telling your grandchildren about someday."
Grumbling at the sight of Neil Armstrong setting a human foot on the moon for the first time in history was no big deal for them. They'd seen it all, and more, on their Saturday morning cartoons!
"But this is real!" I said.
"Aw, gee, OK, now can we go back out and play?" they asked.
"Sure, kids, have a ball," I said. "Just try to remember that this event was something that made all of us proud to be Americans."
The Sixties were a turbulent time, loaded with historical events, changing morals, mores and musical memories, but I don't think any of it was more important than completing President John F. Kennedy's challenge to use our good old American technology to beat the Russians to the moon.
God bless America!
-- Burt Smith, Camarillo