John Glenn is now just a creepy old man
Back then John Glenn was a hero. Now he is just a sell out to Bill Clinton. John should just go away.
Whitey showing off. How did this improve the self-esteem of Muslims?
And today, we have no ability to launch a manned spacecraft. Worse yet, we have to hitch a ride with the Russians.
Back then this country had dreams.
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And didn’t apologize about its triumphs, ambition and the simple fact that we were a meritocracy, (by far, the most just and fair in human history), as the Founders clearly intended.
When I was in civil service we would every now and then come across a person who was clearly moving up in his job with no particular reason why.
The expression was that “he had a sponsor”, meaning someone on high was seeing to it that he made.
When I first started hearing about John Glen, that same thought occurred to me. I remember he was on “name that tune”, before he was selected to the astronaut program.
I also recall that he was not the first man in space, he was not the first American in space, he was not even the first man to orbit the earth. yet he got popularized far more than the others. If one asked the ordinary American who was the first American in space, most of them would say “John Glen”.
There was a brief spot on our local TV station about Glen where they said he was the first American in space. It was understandable, he got all the publicity.
I went to school early that day so I could watch the launch on a TV set placed in the window of a hardware store on Jamaica Ave. in NYC. Cold, rainy morning...I got soaked... but it was worth it.