FROM ALL AMERICA

As much as Neil Armstrong meant to the world, he meant even more to America. He was, after all, a genuinely all-American boy, who grew up in “Smallville, U.S.A.,” deep in the heart of Middle America, in various small towns within the State of Ohio, to humble parents, surrounded by small farms and vast cornfields. As much as America’s comic-book hero of the same era, “Superman,” promoted “Truth, Justice, and the American Way,” so, too, did Neil, as a dedicated Boy Scout (who reached Eagle Scout status), baritone horn player in his high school and university marching bands, naval aviator