DEAR EDITOR: I’m overjoyed to be reliving our Apollo 11 mission to the moon this week.
Joy and tears and memories return as I remember the kid sitting on the living room floor taking in every moment of “LIVE FROM MOON” coverage on our TV.
I’m also overjoyed that we did this 50 years ago, so that it was done right in the eyes of history. If Apollo 11 was going to the moon today, imagine the outrage over the “nationalism” of planting the American flag instead of a UN flag or something else world-encompassing. Imagine the cries of “racism” and “sexism” because the crew consisted of three white male Americans. After all, shouldn’t there have been at least one transgender refugee astronaut of color to accommodate several accepted liberal quotas?
—Jim Kiel, Aurora, via letters@SentinelColorado.com