Former astronaut John Glenn, the first American to orbit Earth, has died at 95.

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Rest in Peace Sir.......you have truly touched the face of God.

John Glenn, first American to orbit Earth, dies aged 95 - BBC News

"Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of earth,
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I've climbed and joined the tumbling mirth of sun-split clouds -
and done a hundred things You have not dreamed of -
wheeled and soared and swung high in the sunlit silence.
Hovering there I've chased the shouting wind along
and flung my eager craft through footless halls of air.

"Up, up the long delirious burning blue
I've topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace,
where never lark, or even eagle, flew;
and, while with silent, lifting mind I've trod
the high untrespassed sanctity of space,
put out my hand and touched the face of God."
 
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I heard stories that, back when he was a Senator, he regularly invited young enlisted Marines that couldn't make it home for the holidays into his home. He also went to great lengths not to cash in on his fame. Class act. A great American.

Godspeed.

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