Two Americans

Two Page One stories. Two men. Two very different Americans.

John Glenn was my hero when I was 12. He still is 55 years later.

Everything shut down at Martin Junior High School in Raleigh so we could watch Glenn’s flight, from launch to splashdown, including the anxiety about reentry.

All of us boys wanted to be John Glenn.

The other man in the news is Mike Adams, the UNCW professor who used his taxpayer-paid position and online platform to mock and deride a 19-year-old female student, who is Muslim, because she lacked “intellectual coherence.”

What intellectual courage he has!

His politics are immaterial. This is about character.

Bullying seems to be quite the thing in America now. After all, we have a President-elect who makes a regular thing of it.

America today needs more John Glenns and fewer Mike Adamses.

 

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Two Americans

Two Page One stories. Two men. Two very different Americans.

John Glenn was my hero when I was 12. He still is 55 years later.

Everything shut down at Martin Junior High School in Raleigh so we could watch Glenn’s flight, from launch to splashdown, including the anxiety about reentry.

All of us boys wanted to be John Glenn.

The other man in the news is Mike Adams, the UNCW professor who used his taxpayer-paid position and online platform to mock and deride a 19-year-old female student, who is Muslim, because she lacked “intellectual coherence.”

What intellectual courage he has!

His politics are immaterial. This is about character.

Bullying seems to be quite the thing in America now. After all, we have a President-elect who makes a regular thing of it.

America today needs more John Glenns and fewer Mike Adamses.

 

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