What happened when something touches you so deeply, it forever stays with you? That’s the feeling I have whenever I recall Apollo 11. A lot of things got burned into my nine-year-old brain during those nine days from lift off to splash down. I like those things. I like to be reminded of those things. Did Hollywood’s recent epic of that fantastic voyage succeed in doing so? Read this week’s Carosa Commentary “First Man – A Titanic Odyssey of The Right Stuff” to find out.
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