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When the Moon Hits Your Eye or Spaghetti in the Sky
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We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard.
President John F. Kennedy, September 12, 1962
I often find myself wondering what my grandfather, Gaetano Crocetti, thought as he sailed to America in 1913. As he voyaged across the Atlantic Ocean from Naples to New York he must have looked up from the deck of the Hamburg and gazed at the Moon. I bet he never dreamed he would have two sons, and of those two Italian-Americans, one would help send men to the Moon and the other would become world famous singing about the Moon. Read the remainder of this entry »