Heroes, hope, sugar packets  Posted: September 03, 2012  Melissa
Farkouh  is a board member of the Friends  of the Medal of Honor
Grove, and director of institutional advancement at the Freedoms
Foundation  at Valley Forge, home of the grove  Sometimes,
stories of heroism and hope begin with something as simple as a
one-inch sugar packet.  And memories of one such packet were
stirred last weekend, with the death of Neil Armstrong, 82,
commander of Apollo 11 and the first man to walk on the moon.
As Armstrong's place in history was being discussed, so many
stories began with people talking about where they were July 20,
1969, watching as Armstrong took that "one small step for man,
one giant leap for mankind." It would seem, from all that
reporting, that the whole world was tuned in.  Not quite.
American POWs being held captive by the North Vietnamese were
not watching. They were not listening to the news on the radio,
nor reading accounts of Apollo 11 in newspapers.  For the POWs,
communication with the out