or controversy? they decided not to show neil armstrong planting the american flag on the moon, which is, of course, a fact of his life.me their reasoning for doing this, an interviewin around the venice film festival is this.s. we ll put it up on the screen. he said i think this was widely regarded in the end as a human achievement. that s how we chose to view it. so i don t think that neil viewed himself as an american hero. from my interviews with his family and people that knew him, it wasne quite the opposite. we wanted the film to reflect neil. now, i don t understand how flag on the moon in any way contradicts his being a humble hero or being reluctant to b embrace that moniker as a hero, but laura: another way of trashing it s another way of trashing patriotism. it s another way of moving beyond the nationalism or nationalistic spirit fervor of the moment. chuck jaegar tweeted out, raymond, who obviously knew neil