Buzz Aldrin Slams ‘First Man’ Movie Censoring American Flag on Moon | YouTube
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Many – or most, perhaps all – of my readers may know of the controversy surrounding the new movie, "First Man," which documents the human story behind Neil Armstrong's journey to and historic first steps on the Moon, but omits the iconic scene of him planting the American flag on the lunar surface.
Director Damian Chazelle and star Ryan Gosling have insisted that this was not a political statement, and even Neil Armstrong's sons have "defended the film by saying they didn’t see it as 'anti-American in the slightest.'” Perhaps not, but Chazelle and company must have had some inkling of how the omission of such a vital and iconic moment would look to observers. It was, at the very least, "bad optics."
Be that as it may, that is not why I am sharing this video by Dr. Steve Turley: the reason for that is to highlight something else which is never shown and rarely known about this historic first lunar landing: the fact that one of the first actions performed on the Moon's surface by Armstrong was to receive the Holy Communion! Indeed, the first food eaten and the first liquid drunk on the Moon was the bread and wine of the Lord's Supper.
Give a listen – it's a great story, and appears about halfway through the video.