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Dale Butland has written a truly depressing essay about the death of John Glenn.<\/p>\n

Writing for the New York Times, Butland — who once worked for the one-time Ohio U.S. senator — seems to think Glenn is the “last American hero” … ever!<\/p>\n

I wince at the thought. I shudder to think that there won’t be someone who can\u00a0capture Americans’ hearts the way Glenn did in 1962.<\/p>\n

The essay itself isn’t depressing. Its premise, though, surely is.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/12\/08\/opinion\/john-glenn-the-last-american-hero.html?smid=tw-share<\/a><\/p>\n

Do I have any clue, any idea where the next hero will appear?<\/p>\n

Of course not!<\/p>\n

However, I am going to remain the eternal optimist that we haven’t yet traipsed through the portal that takes us all into some parallel universe where no heroes can ever exist.<\/p>\n

Sure, Glenn was an exceptional American. A Marine Corps fighter pilot who saw combat in World War II and Korea. The astronaut who became the first American to orbit the planet. A successful business executive. A close friend of John and Robert Kennedy and their families. A four-term U.S. senator. A man who got the call once again, at age 77, to fly into space aboard the space shuttle Discovery.<\/p>\n

He became “an American legend.”<\/p>\n

That, dear reader, is a full life.<\/p>\n

Is he the final legendary figure ever to walk among us?<\/p>\n

Oh, man … I pray that someone will emerge.<\/p>\n\n

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Dale Butland has written a truly depressing essay about the death of John Glenn. Writing for the New York Times, Butland — who once worked for the one-time Ohio U.S. senator — seems to think Glenn is the “last American hero” … ever! I wince at the thought. I shudder to think that there won’t … Continue reading Hoping for the next true American hero<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[2460,2533,2695,2901,3182,3287,3930,6723,5958],"class_list":["post-18482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-jfk","tag-john-glenn","tag-korean-war","tag-marine-corps","tag-nasa","tag-new-york-times","tag-rfk","tag-space-shuttle-discovery","tag-wwii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18482"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18484,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18482\/revisions\/18484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}