RIP: John Glenn

[cranberry]

One of my first heros.

John Glenn, American hero, aviation icon and former U.S. senator, dies at 95

 

[heyabbott]

A true hero.
A great American.
A Life Well Lived

 

[TigerVols]

Well, for his sake, I hope Phil Collins doesn't die this afternoon.

 

[CD Boogie]

Five people posted a thread saying the exact same thing, "RIP: John Glenn." That a board record?

Anyway, yeah, this guy lived a full-ass life. Godspeed

 

[User 4332]

2016 can go **** itself already.

 

[Deskgrunt50]

2016 can go **** itself already.

Completely agree on 2016 going and ****ing itself. Awful year.

Though, at 95, Glenn isn't a shocker. He lived an amazing life. A hero in every sense.

 

[User 4332]

Agreed. He had as full a life as any many could, I suppose.

 

[Ace]

John Glenn was a true hero. Brave as hell and one of the greatest Americans.

 

[FileNotFound]

No. 1 on my list of People I Thought Were Already Dead. Also, RIP and Godspeed.

 

[daytonadan1983]

All the great people we lost and a crappy election for the Cavs, Leicester City and Cubs winning is not a fair trade.

 

[Bronco77]

It didn't get much bigger than John Glenn during my elementary-school years in the '60s. RIP.

 

[Starman]

 

[YankeeFan]

Got my job at Continental Airlines thanks to my work on John Glenn's ticker tape parade in New York.

 

[BTExpress]

JFK put the kibosh on his flying for fear that a tragic accident would take America's space hero.

And maybe he was correct. Could have been (would have been?) Glenn in Apollo 1. NASA really wanted an original Mercury guy to be the first on the moon, and until the Apollo 1 fire it looked to be Grissom by default.

 

[cranberry]

FYI, Chuck Yeager is still around.

 

[BTExpress]

Don't jinx it. 2016 still has three weeks left.

 

[exmediahack]

JFK put the kibosh on his flying for fear that a tragic accident would take America's space hero.

And maybe he was correct. Could have been (would have been?) Glenn in Apollo 1. NASA really wanted an original Mercury guy to be the first on the moon, and until the Apollo 1 fire it looked to be Grissom by default.

Ol Gus always got the shaft.

 

[BTExpress]

Well, he screwed the pooch.


Loved the part in "The Right Stuff" when Gus protested Life magazine running a story under the byline of "Virgil I. Grissom" because Gus hated the name "Virgil", and Life didn't care much for "Gus."

"What's your middle name?"

"Ivan" (aka evil rooskie name)

"Well, er, ah . . . you can be Gus."

 

[micropolitan guy]

I remember watching the takeoff for his space flight in the auditorium of my elementary school, and several years later seeing his Friendship 7 capsule at The Smithsonian, back when it was in the castle, with the charred heat shield.

 

[maumann]

The oldest of the Original Seven lived the longest. And with Glenn's death, that closes the chapter on Mercury. All seven have moved on. I was lucky to see all six Mercury launches from the front yard of my house.