To: good_fight
I was in elementary school during the Gemini and Apollo eras, but I lived and breathed the space program. Like most kids my age I wanted to be an astronaut when I grew up. At least part of my lifelong interest in flying and the Navy and civilian aviation careers that followed can be directly attributed to our pioneering astronauts. Those guys were my heroes. Who, I wonder, provides that kind of public role model for kids today?
Godspeed, Colonel Cooper. You'll be missed.
34 posted on
10/04/2004 5:04:17 PM PDT by
Denver Ditdat
(Ronald Reagan belongs to the ages now, but we preferred it when he belonged to us.)
To: Denver Ditdat
Who, I wonder, provides that kind of public role model for kids today? Do we even dare to dream that big anymore? Do we have men of that will and character?
I realize those days weren't perfect, but there was something in the American character that was not only "can do" but "will do".
Even the libs -- misguided as they were -- had bold plans. Now it seems anyone with an big idea and a bold plan is nibbled to death by squawking ducks.
36 posted on
10/04/2004 5:14:35 PM PDT by
good_fight
(Anglo-Catholic in religion, classicist in literature, realist in politics.)
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