John Glenn Honored

John Glenn was recently presented the Presidentiial Medal Of Freedom by President Obama.  It is the highest civilian honor bestowed by the nation.

In the case of Glenn, 91, the question might be: "What took so long?"  His main claim to fame is obviously being the first American to orbit the Earth, but he was also a decorated Marine fighter pilot, a long time U. S. Senator from Ohio, and a serious contender for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1984.  Glenn also became the oldest person to fly in space when he flew on a shuttle mission to test the effects of microgravity on the elderly.

In short, John Glenn has led one of the most extraordinary American lives of the twentieth century-- and now well into the twenty-first.