NASA wasn't interested in making Muslims feel better about themselves.
Posted on 07/15/2016 11:25:53 AM PDT by fella
Was watching a DVD of "The Spirit of St. Louis" when I realized that it was about when America was great. Lindbergh showed what one determined person can do when not hamstrung by the government. I know he supported Hitler but he recanted of that.
Plus he is played by Jimmy Stuart another aviation hero.
Feel free to add your own examples of American greatness.
NASA wasn't interested in making Muslims feel better about themselves.
Oh,man,who is that lucky lady?
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Charles Lindbergh was not a Nazi sympathizer. Following his visits to Germany before the war, he was debriefed by US military intelligence and revealed what he knew about German air power. Although he opposed US involvement in WWII, he volunteered to serve after the US declared war. But FDR not only refused to allow him to serve, but tried everything he could to keep him out of the war—apparently out of spite due to the longstandingb animosity between the two, which seems to have dated back to a dispute over air mail service in the mid-1930’s.
Nonetheless, Lindbergh got into the war courtesy of his friend Henry Ford. His accomplishments included finding a way for Corsair fighter aircraft to double their bomb loads.
Incidentally, if Lindbergh were a Nazi sympathizer, President Eisenhower would never have appointed him a brigadier general.
Funny cars?
I'm sure someone here will pop up with a name.
Most importantly, I'm sure she earned her position there.
In Flanders Field the poppies blow -
Between the crosses row on row -
Each cross in all the many military cemeteries all over
the world stands for a man, thousands of men, who died
defending their people, their country.
Howard Robert Hughes, Jr - from designing the modern hospital bed to launching TWA, to creating Hughes Aerospace and Hughes Research Labs, to Hughes Medical Institute, he changed the world
I’ll just ask everyone to look it up themselves. The facts are clear and damning.
As I recall, during those missions, he figured out a way to adjust the trim on the propellers to greatly increase fuel efficiency and range.
I used to work with a guy who was closely related to her. Nephew or something. He said he only met her once or twice.
Hamstringed.
Edwin Howard Armstrong, patriot and radio inventor. Thank him when you tune your superheterodyne receiver to the EIB network and when you listen to music (and nowadays talk) on FM. He invented both; FM when all the theoreticians of the day said it couldn’t be done. I believe FDR had him taken off the broadcast airwaves for criticizing the New Deal.
Bill of rights.
Ending slavery.
Technical advancements.
Medical advancements.
The moon.
Assisting the world.
John Wayne and John Deere.
That link confirms the impression I always had which was that Lindbergh was anti-war, but not a Nazi. Lindbergh to my knowledge was mostly associated with America First, an isolationist anti-war group. There were three main groups of anti-war agitators in the US in 1940, the Bund, the Communists and the America Firsters. The German-American Bund were openly pro NAZI and held their meetings in 1942 in concentration camps. The communists Changed from Anti-war to Pro-war in August of 1941 as soon as they learned of the German attack on the Soviet Union. The America First groups faded away in December of 1941.
Lindbergh was a very famous and somewhat flawed man. Good pilot, decent technician, and terrible at fortune telling.
I was in school at the time and there was a big push to really teach math, nothing like the BS the schools are shoveling today.
The first two in your list are the greatest achievements in world history. Both maligned by progressives today.
You can start with Lindbergh vs. Roosevelt: The Rivalry That Divided America by James P. Duffy (Washihngton, DC: Regnery, 2010)
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