Great pilot
Lousy statesman.
No one leaves this planet alive.
Not for good, anyways. ;)
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"I am GO" said Colonel Glenn,
Seemingly content.
All the world looked small, and then,
Glenn was WENT.
Personally, "I am STAY."
Stay is more my style.
Even when I shout Hooray,
I am smile.
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He can now join Neil Armstrong in that exclusive club of ‘firsts’. John, first man to orbit the Earth; Neil first man to set foot upon the moon.
May God welcome them both into His Mercy with open arms.
Sorry, no sadness here. He rode the same pony as John McCain. The idea that one’s early military accomplishments allows one to be totally dickish as a representative of their constituents, because of some imagined special dispensation.
Losers, both.
In 1998 I walked up to John Glenn and told him that his bumping off someone else who had trained so hard and so long for STS-95 was chicken shit.
He was not pleased.
I still remember watching John Glenn take off on an old grainy B&W TV, I was 6 years old and home sick with the measles, and got to see him lift off.
At the time, I thought he was the first man in space, I found out years later he was preceded by a Russian. Watching the splash down hours later was tense...
No comment.
I appreciate the astronauting but no one with that voting record can called a hero, or anything close to it. I’ll leave it at that.
RIP and may God have mercy on his soul.