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Remembering Neil Armstrong

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    FBN’s Stuart Varney on Neil Armstrong’s legacy.

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-- -- -- -- I have always -- There are very few people who make a great mark on history yet refuse to push themselves into the headlines very few.

The attraction of fame and fortune usually is just too much.

So here's my take on one man who did just walk away and that would be.

Neil Armstrong.

Many of us can remember vividly the impact of that moon landing the giant leap for mankind.

It so happened that I was in Iran he talking to India.

When the news came of Armstrong's first step I was in the -- in Tehran.

The crowd was -- Apollo Apollo right -- me big impact.

Weeks later I was on American air force base in northern Turkey when the first film -- yet was filled in those days.

The entire base turned out to watch big impact.

But Neil Armstrong refuse to cash in just about everybody in the world -- the significance of what he did.

NASA showed him off around the world and then he took himself right out of the public side.

He could have cashed in big he did not he -- reveled in the spotlight he didn't.

On the news of his passing someone said that 500 years from now Neil Armstrong's achievement -- remembered as the great historical event of the twentieth century.

Probably true.

-- Armstrong's name will be remembered in that context America at its best Neil Armstrong truly a good man.

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