The Passing Of An American Hero

[roadwarrior]

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/12/08/astronaut-and-former-us-senator-john-glenn-dies-at-95.html

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2016/12/08/oliver-north-john-glenn-had-all-right-stuff.html

 

SALUTE!

[J Francho]

2016 is a merciless beast.

[Jaderose]

God Speed, John Glenn.  *#&% 2016.  This year needs to DIE

[K_Mac]

RIP sir.

[Redlinerobert]

Salute. 

And RIP. 

[OCdockskipper]

R.I.P.

A quick John Glenn story.  Back in February of 1980, my girlfriends parents invited me to join their family on a trip to Hawaii to celebrate their 25th anniversary.  We flew out of LAX on a DC-10 and a few minutes after takeoff (while we were over the ocean), there was a loud BANG and the plane dropped what seemed like a couple hundred feet before the pilot stabilized it.  Turns out the engine over the tail section blew, so we returned to the airport and ended up on another plane about six hours later.  I called my mom while we were waiting for the replacement plane & told her the story.

The following week when we returned, my mom had cut a story out of the LA Times documenting the incident we went through.  The headline of the article was something along the lines of "Flight carrying John Glenn loses engine".  Turns out Mr. Glenn was on the plane with us.  In the article, he said it did shake him up a little, only because he wasn't in the cockpit.  After all of the flights & space mission's he did, it would not have been appropriate for him to have been in a commercial airline crash.

[Gundog]

His life was a living history lesson. Very few of us get to live such a full life. Rest in Peace Mr. Glenn.

[Yakalong]

Great American! 

[Darren.]

Hat's off to a hero. RIP, Mr. Glenn.