This passage takes place during the Apollo 11 moon landing. How does this event affect the narrator?

Whether it was Walter Cronkite, or any of the people at NASA, or “the man on the street”, The night of July 20th, 1969 was One that made everyone’s voice crackle with Amazement and near disbelief as the LIVE FROM MOON banner scrolled at the bottom of the most watched event in Mankind’s History, as Lunar Module Pilot and commander Neil Armstrong and “Buzz” Aldrin, each in their turn, got out of the “LM”, and walked on the Moon for the First Time.

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