And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Don't recognize any of them... am an immigrant shortly after Apollo was abandoned (but before Apollo Loco). A couple of millennia from now if one person's name from the last millennium will be remembered, it will likely be Niel Armstrong.
I know I did. Then, shortly before I graduated, I watched the Challenger disaster from my backyard. I had seen enough shuttle launches to know something didn't look right. I went inside to hear what "the experts" on TV had to say, only to hear them say "That doesn't look right...". I went into the oil exploration business instead, and found my true calling.
I'm ashamed of myself for only being able to recognize Shepherd, Glenn and Grissom and I'm 72.
ReplyDeleteDon't recognize any of them... am an immigrant shortly after Apollo was abandoned (but before Apollo Loco). A couple of millennia from now if one person's name from the last millennium will be remembered, it will likely be Niel Armstrong.
ReplyDeleteLeft to right
ReplyDeleteTop row Schirra, Shepherd
Middle row Glenn, Carpenter, Slayton
Bottom row Cooper, Grissom
Real Hero's,
DeleteThey were stars, heroes, icons; a part of the culture. Little kids wanted to grow up to be astronauts.
ReplyDeleteI know I did.
ReplyDeleteThen, shortly before I graduated, I watched the Challenger disaster from my backyard. I had seen enough shuttle launches to know something didn't look right.
I went inside to hear what "the experts" on TV had to say, only to hear them say
"That doesn't look right...".
I went into the oil exploration business instead, and found my true calling.
There was once a day when almost every American kid knew the names of the astronauts orbiting the planet at the time of any given mission.
ReplyDeleteYears ago I read an autobiography by John Glenn. Extremely egotistical man, really ticked off that Neil Armstrong went to the moon instead of him.
ReplyDeleteSold his soul for a bogus Shuttle ride.
DeleteKnew all the names, but only got 4/7 matched correctly.
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