Posted on 05/27/2019 3:20:24 PM PDT by MNDude
There are thousands of people who have made the world a better place to live. Many died before they were old and some would might be great to have around for a lot longer.
Which three historic people do you wish could have lived another 30 years?
Thomas Edison? Rod Sterling? Shakespeare? John Paul II? You get the point.
Ahem. George Washington was 67 years old and some of us are older than that...
Oh yes. Teddy was a trust buster and all of that but his spirit was inspiring.
67 was pretty good for back then, Pelham. What was the average life-span, 32 or something?
And who wants to live to be 90 if you gotta have wooden teeth?
Not me. They didn't even have jello, so whaddya gonna eat?
Think about it.
Abraham Lincoln to manage Reconstruction. I think he was one of the few powerful Northerners who wouldn't have tried to extract retribution on the South.
If Lou Gehrig could have delayed the onset of ALS for few more years, he would have put some scary career numbers.
I'm sure that Hank Williams was no where near finished with his songwriting or his hits.
Speaking from family experience John Kennedy was not remotely interested in bugging out of Vietnam. He had 16,000 American personnel there and was increasing our involvement right up to the time of his death, even promoting the coup that killed President Diem in order to give Kennedy more control over Vietnam’s internal policy. The chaos resulting from Diem’s assassination was dumped on Lyndon Johnson, who managed to make a bad situation worse.
Wilfred Owen (1893-1918)
John Coltrane (1926-1967)
Ayrton Senna (1960-1994)
Who?
Archduke Ferdinand was my first thought.
Walt Disney.
Giles de Rais, Timur the Lame and Tomas de Torquemada. They new how to have fun! sarc/off
D.C. could really use Vlad the Impaler, what with all the coup participants being introduced to us daily. Line ‘em up and plant them proudly up & down Pennsylvania Ave.
Stevie Ray Vaughn
You are correct on JFK & his immigration nonsense. If he had lived the Democrats most likely would not have swept to very large majorities in 64 & the 65 bill could have been blocked.
“67 was pretty good for back then, Pelham. What was the average life-span, 32 or something?”
John Adams lived to be 90 and Thomas Jefferson lived to be 83. Ben Franklin was 84.
My dad had maternal g-grandparents born around 1809. They both lived around 80 years. The g-grandfather might have lived longer but he was hit and killed by a locomotive as he walked home along some RR tracks. Deaf. His unfortunate death resulted in a lawsuit that made it to the Mississippi State Supreme Court, which is the main reason that I know the details of his demise. IIRC his father had been an Elector for Andrew Jackson, which has nothing to do with the rest of my story.
*** “John McCain if there was suffering” ***
There was No Thumbs UP available ... so I figured I’d just put it out there One More Time! (OK Two)
“John McCain if there was suffering”
Yes, I have discovered that much of what I was taught about Lincoln and the Civil War was myth.
*** “Oh, well, maybe that’s not the spirit of the thing. I just got back from a cemetery full of young men and women who might have had long and rewarding lives but for the wars that took them. Them, to be sure. It’s Memorial Day, after all.” ***
Bill, first time you were the adult in the room ... ya did good.
All our veterans who died fighting for this country.
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