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Moon Landing - Troops in Vietnam

Clip: Special | 56s

Patrick Graves remembers looking up at the moon from a battlefield in Vietnam.

Patrick Graves was in Vietnam when Apollo 11 landed on the moon. He remembers looking up at the moon that night and thinking that Americans – including a fellow West Point graduate, Buzz Aldrin, were up there. Most soldiers in Vietnam, he says, had other things than the moon on their minds.

07/03/2019

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Alabama Public Television Presents

Moon Landing - Troops in Vietnam

Clip: Special | 56s

Patrick Graves was in Vietnam when Apollo 11 landed on the moon. He remembers looking up at the moon that night and thinking that Americans – including a fellow West Point graduate, Buzz Aldrin, were up there. Most soldiers in Vietnam, he says, had other things than the moon on their minds.

07/03/2019

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