Reality is reality. It does us no good to whitewash it.
Why couldn’t we show the class that Trump did in speaking of John Glenn, instead of making ugly remarks about him that seem like they belong on DU rather than FR?
Why not just remember him as an iconic hero of the space age
and a distinguished fighter pilot in both World War II and Korea, with five Distinguished Flying Crosses and eighteen clusters- a man who put his life on the line for America.