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Thoughts and comments wanted on John Glenn.


Great American roll model? Hero? An American's, American?

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Not sure Glenn ever worked in a bakery...

What impresses me most about him is his marriage. When he got out of the hospital a few years back, there were shots of him and his wife, Annie, showing them holding hands like they had just met the week before. I have never not seen them like that.

As a man who has done as well at marriage as Germany has at world wars, I admire, thank and bless him, and them, for being a living testimony for what I still hope to have for myself.

While a Senator, he owned a flew a Baron. Well done!
He flew R4Ds and Corsairs in WWII, and of course his well-documented F-86 in Korea. I've read that the F8U Crusader was a favorite.

And its worth noting that Howard Metzenbaum, his opponent in the 1974 Ohio Democrat Senate primary race attacked him for "Never having a real job".
He said Metzenbaum should find a "... Gold Star mother and you look her in the eye and tell her that her son did not hold a job." Again, well done.

The film The Right Stuff certainly portayed him in a good light, a NASA PR bonanza.
On the film's release in 1982, a Newsweek cover asked if the film could help make a President...the Democrats (and appearently Newsweek ), were looking for a challenger to Reagan for the 1984 election. Wiki says that Glenn wasn't fond of the film because it made him look too much like a moralizer and feared it would be a negative in his political career. It's sad that being too moral can be seen as a negative in politics.

I see he turned 90 this summer.
I'll lift a bottle of RC Cola in his honor. I hope the Colonel is enjoying his retirement.
A great American.

BTW: When he was a Senator, I sent him my copy of We Seven to be autographed, which he did.

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Scott Carpenter and John Glenn, with Mrs. Glenn on his arm, at KSC in 07.
2012 will mark the 50th anniversary of their Mercury flights.

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3 MiG kills in Korea.

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Project SAGEBURNER

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Umm... John Glenn had nothing to do with Project SAGEBURNER unless it was part of the later high altitude record attempts (which I can find no direct reference to who flew them). Even at that, the later attempts were only "SAGEBURNER" in attachment, they were done with a different aircraft and whole different team.

http://www.nasm.si.edu/collections/arti ... 9690213000

http://steeljawscribe.com/2007/03/23/fl ... sageburner

Do they still make RC Cola?? I know this is off-topic but I have not seen one in years.

(But then, I am from a place where you can still buy Moxie)

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Kevin McCartney

Nathan I thought you left buddy!!??

Plenty of RC around here

Another backslidin' WIX crackhead falls off the wagon...

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Yep....I know a fast food place that even has it in their self-serve fountain. And WM has 2 litre bottles.

Not only do we have RC here, but also PC.

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Note political free signature.
I figure if you wanted my opinion on items unrelated to this forum, you'd ask for it.

Sorry not SAGEBURNER I meant Project Bullet. One of those programs... hard to keep em all straight.

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Don't forget his greates achievement, blagging a ride on the shuttle in his seventies!

Rgds Cking

On a related note, there's an interesting rumor floating around that in anticipation of Glenn being in attendance NASM is thinking of temporarily moving Friendship 7 out to Dulles for when Discovery arrives.