NEIL ARMSTRONG, REST IN PEACE

This is one of those times where we pause the politics to pay tribute to someone who gave us the inspiration to go forward regardless of who we are and what we believe. Neil Armstrong, the first to ever set foot on the Moon, has left us for an even higher plane at the age of 82. Mike Flugennock gives us this artwork and his thoughts.

Mike Flugennock

When Neil Armstrong died last Saturday, my boyhood finally officially ended.

By all rights, flags all over this country should be lowered to half-staff in honor of one of the last real American heroes, but it would still be meaningless, because no one can lower the one flag that really matters.

11×14 inch medium-res color .jpg image, 408kb

And now, one more time, for all you young’uns out there: