Ask your kids who John Glenn was?

[Anonymous]

My 9 year old knows him, but he studied space exploration last year in school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm 40 and had no idea who he was. I would know Sally Ride or Neil Armstrong.

He was also a U.S. Senator. Do you never read a newspaper or watch the news?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm 40 and had no idea who he was. I would know Sally Ride or Neil Armstrong.

This.

Dumb ass and proud of it.

Times two.

I dislike judgy people so I give you pluses to admitting. All these people who know everything.... LOL. Most generation X know because we watched the movie The Right Stuff with Sam Shepherd.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I asked 3 high school kids in the car pool today (one of whom is waiting on an Ivy leagues ED acceptance letter) No one could even id him as an astronaut. I was shocked.

Such is the state of education today. I'll bet they know who Wiz Khalifa is and can name all the characters on Game of Thrones.

well it looks like we don't have to worry so much, except about this carpool.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm 40 and had no idea who he was. I would know Sally Ride or Neil Armstrong.

This.

Dumb ass and proud of it.

Times two.

I dislike judgy people so I give you pluses to admitting. All these people who know everything.... LOL. Most generation X know because we watched the movie The Right Stuff with Sam Shepherd.

Speak for yourself. I'm a Gen-Xer and I know all about Glenn because I lived through the Cold War, and remember learning about the space race between the Soviet Union and the US in the 1960s, and the role Glenn and his contemporaries played in those events. He was also a Senator from Ohio for 25 years and was always on the news even after he retired, so that is another reason you should know about him.

I absolutely judge people who go through life paying zero attention to anything around them. To not even have an inkling who John Glenn was means you don't follow the news, you've never set foot in the Air and Space Museum (or if you did you wandered around aimlessly and bolted to the gift shop instead of looking at the exhibits), you don't know about major American movies or novels, and you didn't pay attention in your elementary, middle, or high school history classes. If you had done even one of these things, you would know who John Glenn was.

[Anonymous]

I know who he is, but I grew up in Ohio.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm 40 and had no idea who he was. I would know Sally Ride or Neil Armstrong.

Neither did I. But when the OP mentioned astronaut, I remembered. So, basically I would get it right on a multiple choice test. Score!

[Anonymous]

But before all that, he was a Marine.

Interstign thing is during his first run for senate, Metzenbaunm claimed he wasn't fit because he never had a job before running for the senate-we all know the outcome.....

RIP Marine.

[Anonymous]

I had a doll I named John Glenn as a kid. I'm 57.

[Anonymous]

Op again..turns out 1 kid is taking astronomy and it was not mentioned in class.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I know who he is, but I grew up in Ohio.

Same here. I'm from Ohio, he's a true hero.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Op again..turns out 1 kid is taking astronomy and it was not mentioned in class.

I would not expect my child to learn about astronauts in astronomy. That's weird.

[Anonymous]

Really though, who cares? What does being able to ID him as an astronaut do to benefit your life?

[Anonymous]

I'm 25 and know who he is. I remember learning about him in elementary school, I think because he was going back up to space again in 98? We had a big poster of him in his astronaut gear in the library. American hero!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm 40 and had no idea who he was. I would know Sally Ride or Neil Armstrong.

This.

Dumb ass and proud of it.

Times two.

I dislike judgy people so I give you pluses to admitting. All these people who know everything.... LOL. Most generation X know because we watched the movie The Right Stuff with Sam Shepherd.

Speak for yourself. I'm a Gen-Xer and I know all about Glenn because I lived through the Cold War, and remember learning about the space race between the Soviet Union and the US in the 1960s, and the role Glenn and his contemporaries played in those events. He was also a Senator from Ohio for 25 years and was always on the news even after he retired, so that is another reason you should know about him.

I absolutely judge people who go through life paying zero attention to anything around them. To not even have an inkling who John Glenn was means you don't follow the news, you've never set foot in the Air and Space Museum (or if you did you wandered around aimlessly and bolted to the gift shop instead of looking at the exhibits), you don't know about major American movies or novels, and you didn't pay attention in your elementary, middle, or high school history classes. If you had done even one of these things, you would know who John Glenn was.

Did you forget your Prozac today? You are not only judgy as heck but presumptuous. I am from Europe and not by definition American generation X, we didn't have such labels in Europe. I learned all about history books and classes, know most of things about him, been to the Air and Space Museum numerous times, on my own, with my kids, with my parents. The truth is that you protest too much, and clearly are learning your history from Museums and news... I learned it in school most likely before you were walking, and here you are going on and on about living through the Cold War. You had nothing to live through, Cold War was a political construct. What exact hardship did Cold War bring you? Did you know, since you are so well versed in all things, that USSR wanted to join NATO in 1954?
Did you know that SS member Von Braun was one of the main reasons US was able to launch V-2 rocket and that without him US mission to land on the moon never would have happened? As generation X earliest you could have been born was 1965, so there wasn't all that much "Cold War" to live through, not to mention that there was really no Cold War in the United States. Now if you lived in East Berlin, we could have a conversation. I hate judgy people, because they are ignorant of anything but themselves and making themselves look good at the expense of others. Do you know who Vaclac Havel was without the web search? Why did Poseidon want to kill Odysseus? Where was the capital of the Roman Empire after 330AD? When did the Roman Empire fall? Let's see how smart you are without Wikipedia.