John Glenn (July 18, 1921 – December 8, 2016)

[marylander1940]

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Glenn

[BabyBoomer]

RIP. He was the last of the Mercury 7.

 

~ Boomer~

[marylander1940]

[+ quoththeraven]

He will be missed.

[marylander1940]

He will be missed.

 

very emotional goodbye to him in Ohio in a rainy afternoon.

 

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The nation's vice president and a retired Marine Corps general were among the dignitaries, family members and other mourners who choked up Saturday during a memorial tribute to the late space hero John Glenn.

 

Roughly 2,500 people gathered at Mershon Auditorium on the Ohio State University campus for "a celebration of life" for the former fighter pilot, history-making astronaut and longtime Democratic U.S. senator from small-town Ohio. He was remembered not only for bravery, but for his thoughtful consideration for others, his integrity and his patriotic optimism.

 

"I think John defined what it meant to be an American, what we were about, just by how we acted," said Vice President Joe Biden, a former colleague of Glenn's in the U.S. Senate. "It was always about the promise. We were a country of possibility, opportunity, always a belief in tomorrow."

https://www.yahoo.com/news/celebration-john-glenns-life-planned-ohio-capital-152331586.html?ref=gs

[marylander1940]

Astronaut, senator, Marine: John Glenn is buried in Arlington Cemetery

 

Legendary astronaut, U.S. senator and Marine Corps fighter pilot John Glenn was buried Thursday morning in Arlington National Cemetery in a drenching rain that beat on his coffin and soaked the green hillside where he was laid to rest.

 

The body of Glenn, who was 95 when he died Dec. 8 in Columbus, Ohio, was carried through the downpour on a black, horse-drawn caisson decorated with silver stars and golden wheel hubs.

 

It was followed by six Marine Corps pallbearers whose white gloves had been soaked to gray, and a black riderless horse with reversed boots in the stirrups.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/astronaut-senator-marine-john-glenn-is-buried-in-arlington-cemetery/2017/04/06/398a32dc-1ad9-11e7-9887-1a5314b56a08_story.html?utm_term=.ec6211551dec

[bigvalboy]

http://www.toledoblade.com/image/2016/12/17/1080x720_q65_a3-2/John-Glenn-Annie.JPG

[+ azdr0710]

Flags in my town are at half staff today. Is this why? (though I know it may be a local or state thing here, instead)