One Ordinary Person

One Ordinary Working for One Giant Leap for Man Kind The words you are about to read are from a man far in the background of one of mankind’s greatest accomplishments; Putting a man on the moon. Everyone knows the outcome of the space race, but this story is a personal experience of a man, in the American workforce, who contributed to something more than just working to provide for his family, but for the American people, and ultimately people worldwide. This man, also happens to be my grandfather.

My grandfather, Jack White, was raised on the outskirts of Wilson County. His father was a farmer out of a children’s book, raising all sorts livestock and crops. My grandfather said “My father was a hard worker, he had me and my brother out there

So I gave up on that and went to work for the Colonial Bread company as a salesman for a couple years. I continued welding on the side just to make a couple more dollars. I got another job driving for, Archway Cookies driving all over the nation shipping cookies. After that I decided it was time to go back to welding and began to work for a company called, The Wright Industries.” This is where my grandfather made his greatest achievements from welding. “In about 65 or 64, I began working for the Wright Industries in Nashville. They contracted work for George C. Marshall Space Center, in Huntsville Alabama, and they also did work for Bowen Aircraft. I helped work on the Saturn Rocket. I worked on the landing gear for the rocket to be able to land securely and safely and to launch back to earth securely and safely. When they launched back the left the landing gear on the moon for some reason. I reckon it is still up there, I am not to certain. The rocket had legs set up on it like a tri-pod, made up of 6inch aluminum and brackets. The legs were to be able to support the landing and be able to launch from the moon back to Earth. The welds had to be very precise, all welds had to be dyepenatrated and died and X-rayed. The work had to be perfect!