OSWALDO CONEJO ARTE

Next July 20 of this year 2009 will be the 40 years
of the historical arrival of the man to the Moon.
And from that moment the polemic was created of, if really the Apollo 11
landed on the moon or,if everything, was the biggest farce of the History?

But it is not to continue with the polemic for what I do this commentary
but to transmit to all of those that today have less than 40 years
the fascinating mental adventure that means that odyssey
For all those of us that we were children in those days

It is not my intention to denigrate the new generations
but the World, in spite of all the problems
that it was facing those years
... as the terrible War of Vietnam,
the cold War between U.S.A and the extinct U.S.S.R
the Disturbance for the civil Rights
the Rebellion "Hippie" and so many more
was a better place of what it is today.

And the adventure of the Apollo 11
without mattering that they were arrived or not to the Moon
it was one of the most beautiful adventure
of the whole humanity, since in the air
something was floating, slightly indescribable,
slightly magical, that was saying to us,to the young men
that the future might be wonderful
and made us dream and also,
It made us turn the look towards the sky
without mattering if you were a rich child of America
or a poor child of any another part of the World.

We all were dreaming of being "Neil Armstrong"
or Collins or Aldrin ... but then, something very bad happened!!
... I do not know what it was ? .. but It was very,very bad!!

... The World advanced very much technologically, but
it moved back, mental and spiritually
almost to the level of The cavemen.

Today the young men, do not look at the sky
but they fix the look on a screen
" Killing everything what goes out in it "
feeling all-powerful pressing buttons
of a "Nintendo" or a "Play Station"

Today the young people do not dream of trips to outer space
but of being "Rapperos" and to earn millions without working
and any very small young girl dreams of putting on " Silicona's implants "
for with 13 or 15 years old, be a " Top Model "
and to work out almost naked in the front page of some magazine.

Maybe, what happens is that simply, that I got "old"
nevertheless... I want to do in advance an Honoring
to the Mission of the Apollo 11
Because ... without mattering
that they have arrived or not to the Moon, at least for me...

They helped to show me that ...
" there is something more " than sex, party and libertinism
And that the man, when he looks up to the stars
he approaches a bit more to God.
" Honor and glory to the Apollo 11 in its 40 years"
And I wish that You have landed on the moon...
because, believe it or not!!!
... I was going with you!!!

.....Oswaldo Conejo