I also think Neil was extremely humble, as were many of these astronauts, and time and time again he deferred the focus from himself to the 400,000 people who made the mission possible…So I don’t think that Neil viewed himself as an American hero…”That is Gosling’s viewpoint. On that subject, Gosling was only half correct when he speculated that: “…I don’t think that Neil viewed himself as an American hero.”While Armstrong never viewed himself as a “hero,” he was incredibly proud to be an American. That temptation acknowledged, the facts are that Armstrong felt very strongly about maintaining American preeminence in space. Armstrong was a proud American who served his nation with great distinction who saw the moon landing as an American achievement worthy of an American flag being left on the surface forever in recognition of the tremendous sacrifice it took to get our nation there. An American flag now censored from his hands in the movie “First Man.”

Source: Fox News September 01, 2018 19:41 UTC