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4A | WEDNESDAY, JULY 24, 2019 | COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL Cottage Grove Sentinel 116 N. Sixth St. Cottage Grove, Ore. 97424 NED HICKSON , MANAGING EDITOR | Opinion 541-902-3520 | NHICKSON @ CGSENTINEL . COM The First Amendment C ongress shall make no law respect- ing an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Govern- ment for a redress of grievances. “I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.” —Thomas Jefferson (1800) USPS#133880 Copyright 2019 © COTTAGE GROVE SENTINAL Letters to the Editor Policy The Sentinel welcomes letters to the editor as part of a community discussion of issues on the local, state and national level. Emailed letters are preferred. Handwritten or typed letters must be signed. 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Letters must: 1) Not be a part of letter-writing campaigns on behalf of (or by) candidates; 2) Ensure any information about a candidate is accurate, fair and not from second-hand knowledge or hearsay; and 3) explain the reasons to support candidates based on personal experience and perspective rather than partisanship and campaign-style rhetoric. Candidates themselves may not use the letters to the editor column to outline their views and platforms or to ask for votes; this constitutes paid political advertising. As with all letters and advertising content, the newspaper, at the sole discretion of the publisher, general manager and editor, reserves the right to reject any letter that doesn’t follow the above criteria. ‘We came in peace for all mankind’ that of the human race. As he took that first “small step” and uttered his now famous words referring to mankind’s giant leap, the moment illustrated a couple of program had in the 1960s. Yet some 400,000 scientists, researchers and engineers worked in collaboration and solved what historians have to the chalkboard and drawing four bell-type curves. He labeled them Leadership, Threat, Economy and Talent, then said, “When you get all these lined up, you Fifty years ago this can’t stop something re- past Saturday, more than ally big from happening.” 600 million people from Fifty years ago, on July From the Managing Editor’s Desk around the world were 21, the Apollo 11 began Ned Hickson united in a common its journey back to Earth, experience: To watch as leaving behind a plaque the first humans set foot on the surface of the on the moon. undeniable truths about called the “10,000 impos- moon that reads: It was part of a journey our species. sible questions” facing Here men from the that had begun eight The first is that when the mission. planet Earth first set foot years earlier, culminating we are at our best, the Which brings me to on the moon—July 1969 in a 76-hour, 200,000- impossible becomes the second undeniable A.D.—We came in peace mile trek to reach the possible. truth about mankind: for all mankind. farthest point that hu- To truly appreciate the To live in peace together, As we continue to re- mans had ever touched magnitude of obsta- we must either be united flect on the 50th anniver- within our universe. cles that needed to be in a common threat or sary of achieving the im- As Neil Armstrong overcome in order to common goal. possible, we need to ask opened the hatch of the achieve the first moon In 1972, after the ourselves whether the Apollo 11 lunar module landing and safely return completion of the final next small step we take at 10:39 p.m. on July 20 astronauts Buzz Aldrin, mission in the Apollo will unite us through and began descending Michael Collins and program, about 30 NASA leadership, economy and the ladder toward the Armstrong, you only leaders met for a few talent — and if that unity moon’s surface, it didn’t have to look at the iP- days at Caltech to review will be the fleeting kind matter what language he hone in your pocket. what had been accom- created by a common spoke or political party Today, within that plished and how they threat, or a lasting peace he belonged to — and handheld device, you had achieved the chal- for all mankind that the only race that mat- wield more computer lenge of the century. comes through sharing a tered as he created the processing power than Armstrong was the last common goal. first lunar footprint was the entire NASA space to speak, walking quietly Send letters to: nhickson@cgsentinel.com HOW TO CONTACT YOUR REPS Oregon state representatives Oregon federal representatives • Sen. 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