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Astronaut Neil Armstrong sent this photos to me in 1979, throgh the Embassy of the USA in Buenos Aires, because I sent to him before a congratulation for the 10th anniversary of the moon landing. He sent to me too about 70 photos and missions reports too.
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you are a blessed man ARGIE. all signed? Armstrong represented the best of an era of HEROIC men of America. Not to take anything away from millitary forces of that time that were starting to come back from the hell in Vietnam.
FANTASTIC! How wonderfully meaningful :-)