Just an anecdote. Back in July, the BBC asked for personal anecdotes regarding memories of the moon landing forty years before.

I emailed them that on the day of the splashdown of the moon mission, I was visiting my grandmother, a Swedish immigrant born in the year Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone. As a result she had seen all the technological development of the XXth century in person: the telephone, radio, TV; the automobile, airplane and the beginnings of the computer age. I asked her what she thought of men having reached the moon. Her reaction was essentially, 'So what?!' Then I mentioned that Col 'Buzz' Aldrin was of Swedish backgound. About five minutes later she turned to me and asked, ' You mean there was a Swede on the moon!?' Men on the moon? No big deal. A Swede on the moon? That was a different matter entirely!

Anyway, I had totally forgotten about the email until today when I was reminded of it. This afternoon, former forum member Alberta Royalist stopped in the store to talk while he was in the city. He told me that he had heard the programme where they read the stories they had received. At the very end, the presenter said, 'I've saved the best for last. Here is an email from Jovan Weismiller in Edmonton, Alberta' and proceeded to read my story!