It is with a heavy heart I write today’s post. Today we lost a true hero – the last of the Mercury Seven – John Glenn.
I suppose I am just “old” but the Mercury Seven represent for me a time when we as a nation and society traveled through time’s finest hour.
Godspeed John Glenn… May you travel well… Godspeed…

Astronaut John Glenn photographed in space by an automatic sequence motion picture camera during his flight on “Friendship 7.” Glenn was in a state of weightlessness traveling at 17,500 mph as this picture was taken.
Amen brother!
Jim in Houston. Age 63
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