Quite simply, yes, we did
"My Grandparents never believed it..."
-- Your Grandparents are wrong =(
"... and no one could convince them otherwise..."
-- Your Grandparents are arrogant fools, no offense.
"... I'm beginning to think they were right."
-- Then you are falling into the same death trap that the conspiratists are in. The people who think man never landed on the moon are in the same category of conspiracy theorists as the people who think there are aliens on the moon, NASA is secretly colonizing Mars, and NASA tried to destroy Jupiter with the Galileo probe. All of them chose to neglect the huge, overwhelming amount of evidence show they're wrong. Conspiracy theorists are unable to admit they're wrong, as opposed to unwilling. What next? You're going to start believing in the 2012 crap, Nibiru, or Planet X?
"I believe it was a conspiracy, I believe it was a lie all made up in a movie studio"
-- Tell this to the millions of people that worked on the Apollo program (not hundreds, not thousands, literally millions. The Government isn't THAT good at keeping secrets, it would require the millions of scientists, engineers, and such to play along, and for them all to keep silent for the rest of their lives. Not happening. Of course, since we DID go to the moon, it's not a problem =)
"...maybe to stop the cold war... " Speaking of that, Russia tracked Apollo 11 all the way to the moon to make sure we weren't faking it. Since we weren't faking it, and even Russia was able to realise it with something called "technology", it's all good! There's no conspiracy.
"...maybe to bring hope to Americans"
-- It did that well.
"...or maybe to pocket money that would have been used to really go the moon and they thought it cheeper to pull the wool over eyes." It would take more money than that to keep the entire planet confused. Think about it, keeping millions of people silent for decades doesn't work. And besides, how can you convince Russia to keep silent about it? Your conspiracy theories don't add up, man.
"... Who had to die to cover this up, was it Kennedy? Was it anyone at all or was it many?" Nobody had to die. Kennedy was killed by a crazed criminal, not some secret CIA agent protecting some crazy hoax. The Apollo 1 astronauts died in a capsule fire, if that counts for anything to you.
"If NASA went to the moon, why did they go and why haven't they been back?" They went for two reasons, to beat the Russians, and to conduct lunar science (<-- to learn about the moon). We haven't been back because American kind of lost interest, and the Apollo program was cancelled. But fear not, we are going to go back with the new Orion spacecraft, slated for first flight in 2015.
"And why does the video of their supposed trip to the moon have so many holes in it like the flag vigorously blowing in the wind" You are misinterpreting the video, as well as horrifically exaggeration your misinterpretation. The flag was not waving in the wind, it was responding to the astronauts motion. Imagine a rope tied to a tree, and you hang on to one end of it, if you move the rope, momentum carries it throughout the entirety of the rope. I assure you, this works in a vacuum. And it also works with flags in vacuums. The moon was not waving in the wind, it was transferring momentum from the astronauts motion.
"There's no gravity,"
Ah but there IS gravity on the moon, as well as on all planets and moons. Anybody with an education would know that... oh wait! haha, you're supporting a conspiracy theory, haha! No wonder.
"Who was the camera man? wouldn't he have been the first one to walk on the moon and not Armstrong?"
-- I'm not sure who the camera man was after the two got off the lander, but to get the image of the man walking on the moon, when Armstrong was climbing down the ladder, he pulled a mechanism on it that turned on a video camera on the outside of the lander, aimed at Armstrong. I assure you, Armstrong was indeed first on the moon, the camera that filmed it was not held by man, but rather, by a lander.
"There's a lot of questions about this event and not many answers",
-- The lack of answers you claim of is the refusal to accept truth. There ARE answers, you've just got to leave behind childish conspiracy mindsets.
"What do you think? What's your opinion?"
-- I think you're lost and confused, but not irreparably. I'm willing to help show you the light of truth so that you may abandon your ridiculous, counterproductive, contradictory, foolish, hypocrisies of the conspiritists.
My opinion? You need to grow up and get an education. Don't get in the same rut of ignorance your grandparents subjected themselves to. You also need to check your spelling and grammar.
"Some say we did not have that kind of technology back in the 60's"
-- Then they're wrong... lol that's not hard.
"I just don't think we went to the moon"
-- Then you're wrong... lol that's not hard.
" I don't think men have ever been past the International space station"
-- Then you're wrong... lol that's not hard.
-- There's been quite a few people who have been there. Ask them about it if you get the chance. I assure you, astronauts HAVE been to the ISS.
"b/c of radiation they would perish so they have to send machines otherwise it would be a waste of money."
-- The existence of radiation in the Near-Earth environment is real, but it is not as bad as conspiracy theorists want you to think. The radiation is not that bad, and astronauts have been in space for several months. The typical stay on the ISS is six months. It only took a few hours for the Apollo astronauts to pass through the radiation belts (which, might I add, are much higher than the space station's altitude). A few hours is considerably shorter than a few months. The Apollo astronauts were fine.