Saluting Neil Armstrong today — he transcends the title of American Hero… he is truly a hero of all the Earth. Even if we put a man on Mars, it won’t be as big a leap for mankind as when he became the first person to set foot on the moon; that act dramatically changed how we viewed the entire universe — not as something “out there” and “ever unreachable”, but as a whole new frontier to be explored.
There’s an anecdote about Neil’s moon landing that has been floating around for some years, which has since been proven false — but it’s a great story, nonetheless, and I think many people sort of wanted it to be true. Read the details below on Snopes.com.