Godspeed John Glenn

Godspeed John Glenn December 8, 2016

John Glenn, astronaut, senator, hero and all around great guy, has passed.  I never knew a world without John Glenn figuring prominently in school lessons or local news stories.  Being an Ohio boy, we were justly proud of him on so many different levels.  He served well as a senator, pushed the frontiers of space and science, was one of the few non OSU band members to dot the ‘i’, and has always been the kind of person I could point my boys to and say ‘Be like him!”

I heard that he went into the hospital today, and feared the worst.  Nonetheless, he’s had a a storied life and career, and you can’t help but think that he’s one of those people who left the world just a little better than he found it.

Eternal rest grant unto him O Lord, and let the perpetual light shine upon him.

“I don’t know what you could say about a day in which you have seen four beautiful sunsets.” ~~ John Glenn.


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