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Neil Armstrong and the Flag

 

Leave it to Hollywood to foul things up:

 

Ryan Gosling is defending his new Neil Armstrong biopic against pre-release criticism it has garnered over a decision by director Damien Chazelle to omit from the film the iconic placing of the American flag on the moon.

Gosling said it was his view that Armstrong’s moon walk, “transcended countries and borders,” according to quotes featured in U.K.’s Telegraph, reportedly from a press conference at the Venice Film Festival.
“I think this was widely regarded in the end as a human achievement [and] that’s how we chose to view it,” Gosling reportedly said. “I also think Neil was extremely humble, as were many of these astronauts, and time and time again he deferred the focus from himself to the 400,000 people who made the mission possible.”
Go here to read the rest.  So history is to be mangled in order to satisfy some sort of globalist rubbish.  The moon landing was a big event for all of humanity but from first to start it was an American project paid for by US taxpayers, with American astronauts risking their lives.  Neil Armstrong was an American patriot who fought for this country in the Korean War.  Chuck Yeager has summed this up well:
That’s not the Neil Armstrong I knew.  More Hollywood make believe.
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Mary De Voe
Friday, August 31, AD 2018 6:03pm

The American taxpayers paid to have the American Flag placed on the moon as well as paying for having a man placed on the moon. Well done.

Ernst Schreiber
Ernst Schreiber
Friday, August 31, AD 2018 6:25pm

It did transcend countries and borders. But there was only one country that could do that.

And its flag is on the moon.

Six of them, in fact.

Dave Griffey
Dave Griffey
Friday, August 31, AD 2018 7:13pm

Never, never, never trust Hollywood for history. Which is fine. Nobody counts it against Shakespeare that he could play fast and loose with history. But I’m reminded of Tom Hanks talking about what it took to get Richard Winters on board with the miniseries Band of Brothers. Major Winters was not thrilled with the idea, especially with his character being the focal point. Hanks and Spielberg both visited him. Finally Hanks told Winters that Hollywood never gets it right. The most accurate movies in history are only about 13% accurate. For the BoB miniseries, they’re shooting for about 18%, which would make it about the most accurate program ever produced. Nonetheless, Hanks was sure the veterans would be able to find a thousand things wrong. So again, movies can be great fun, but never trust them for the history, or anything factual for that matter.

BTW, it’s worth noting that Richard Winters’ least favorite episode was episode 5, the one that focused on him.

John the Mad
John the Mad
Friday, August 31, AD 2018 9:04pm

As a Canadian I recall that evening when Neil Armstrong stepped foot on the moon. I was a teenager and was awestruck. I could see the moon in the sky and was trying to wrap my head around the fact that Americans were on that moon. Everyone saw it then as a great American achievement. It was and it is.

Mary De Voe
Saturday, September 1, AD 2018 1:08am

“Never, never, never trust Hollywood for history”
Hollywood is it own little country or rather its own secessionist territory.

Duncan Black
Duncan Black
Saturday, September 1, AD 2018 6:56am

Buzz Aldrin’s Holy Communion was also omitted.

https://youtu.be/HuFYpbSIQK8

James
James
Saturday, September 1, AD 2018 7:13am

Too bad Buzz was not a Catholic. He could have been the first person to bring the Body and Blood of Jesus to the Moon.

Texas Thomist
Texas Thomist
Saturday, September 1, AD 2018 7:13am

Such hogwash. Just because Armstrong was somewhat humble doesn’t mean he thought the Apollo landings were anything but an American effort.
I now regret having paid good money to see “La La Land” twice with my bride. I should have known better, I suppose.
I wonder when the school book publishers will send the lunar flag-plantings down the Orwellian memory hole? Or if they’ve already started to do that?

Foxfier
Admin
Saturday, September 1, AD 2018 8:13am

I could see the moon in the sky and was trying to wrap my head around the fact that Americans were on that moon.

Now I’ve got a funny mental sketch about American tourists or military showing up everywhere.

Mary De Voe
Saturday, September 1, AD 2018 9:04am

Buzz Aldrin’s Holy Communion was also omitted. On Apollo 13, the Commander, James Lovell was and is a Catholic. Divine Providence brought Apollo 13 home. Thank God.

Mary De Voe
Saturday, September 1, AD 2018 9:05am

Maybe, I am thinking, that is why the atheists are claiming that the moon landing was a hoax.

Ezabelle
Ezabelle
Saturday, September 1, AD 2018 12:08pm

It seems they have taken the words “That’s one, small step for man, one giant leap for mankind”, quite literally. Correct me if I’m wrong but wasn’t it a race between the USSR and the USA to see who would land on the moon first? Hence, placing the US flag on the moon as evidence of this achievement. Has the the history of this rivalry, and the Cold War which fuelled this rivalry been re-written by Hollywood also?

Mary De Voe
Saturday, September 1, AD 2018 5:58pm

The American Flag placed on the moon claimed the moon as U.S. territory.

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