Neil Armstrong and the one giant swing by Gaylord Perry

Neil Armstrong, the Apollo 11 astronaut who died Saturday at 82, said he did not want to live his life as an icon, remembered only for that electric night in 1969 when he and Buzz Aldrin walked on the moon. But when you have done what he did -- steppedNeil Armstrong was my hero not because he walked on the moon but because he seldom spoke about walking on the moon, or anything else to do with himself. Declining to call attention to his improbable achievements was one of Armstrong's improbableThere is no American civilian more deserving of a state funeral than Neil Alden Armstrong. But to

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