(December 9, 2016 at 12:36 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:(December 8, 2016 at 7:04 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Yeah, I thought - for some reason - he'd got away before.
People these days seem to play fast and loose with the word 'hero', but I think John Glenn qualified.
Boru
I reckon anyone who straps his ass to a big bomb in the hopes of helping expand human knowledge qualifies as a hero. And I know damned well that such a man has balls of cast-iron.
I just learned that his nickname as a fighter pilot was 'Magnet Ass' due to his freakish ability to attract flak - he once retuned from a sortie with something like 200 holes in his plane.
Boru
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