“Tranquility Base here; the Eagle has landed”

40 years have passed since mankind set foot on the moon.
Everyone keeps repeating “That’s one small step for man; one giant leap for mankind.”
But what’s important for me is “Tranquility Base here; the Eagle has landed.”
It’s July of 1969. I am in the back seat of a Plymouth Valiant, returning from a reunion of my wife’s relatives.
Her father has the a.m. car-radio on; we are listening to a broadcast of the first moon-landing.
“Houston, uh....... Tranquility Base here; the Eagle has landed.”
“Holy Mackerel!” I think to myself.
“We’ve done it!”
Here we are on a rural outback road out in the middle of nowhere in northwestern PA, Potter County — self-declared as “God’s Country.”
And mankind has landed on the moon.
IRONY ALERT!
“Tranquility Base here; the Eagle has landed” is forever etched in my mind.