

Very interesting, David. You make an interesting point about your

community of practitioners at the end.



I do have a couple of constructive criticisms, if I may.



If you publish more on this, and I hope you do, try to make the

historical context as accurate as possible. For example, you write,



"He spent several hours rehearsing!"



In fact, he didn't. Neil only composed the phrase in his head sometime

after the landing and going through all the emergency liftoff

procedures, etc. He had no more than two hours from the time he thought

it up to the time he uttered it.



Peter is actually very well versed in the Apollo 11 history, aside from

reading my book. One of the reasons that Peter was so convincing to me,

Neil, NASM, and NASA was that he knew the details of the Apollo 11

mission very well. They can be very important to the analysis.



Also, you should take into consideration, even more so than Peter does,

that Neil comes from northwestern Ohio. I come from northeastern

Indiana, only 60 miles from where Neil grew up. There is a regional

accent to consider. "For a" is often expressed is 'foruh," virtually as

one syllable. Personally, that is my theory.



At our meeting in National Air and Space, I suggested to Peter that

someone should look for ALL of the expressions of the "a" word

throughout the voice communication recordings. Surely if Neil

"swallowed" the "a" in some way for his historic expression, he also did

it many other times. Right?



Anyway, I appreciate your generous comment about Peter's democratic

approach to trying to resolve this mystery. He has spent the last 5-6

years looking at voice wave files as it relates to his Neuro-Server

technology. So, though he does not have all the insights and techniques

of your very important academic discipline, he does have some very

interesting and useful background experience.



Best,



Jim

