It ought to be a national holiday

Today is NewMexiKen’s birthday.

Also Dan Quayle is 61, Alice Cooper is 60, Lawrence Taylor is 49 and Clint Black is 46.

Charles Lindbergh was born on this date in 1902. The following is the from the beginning of his obituary in 1974:

In Paris at 10:22 P.M. on May 21, 1927, Charles Augustus Lindbergh, a one-time Central Minnesota farm boy, became an international celebrity. A fame enveloped the 25-year-old American that was to last him for the remainder of his life, transforming him in a frenzied instant from an obscure aviator into a historical figure.

The consequences of this fame were to exhilarate him, to involve him in profound grief, to engage him in fierce controversy, to turn him into an embittered fugitive from the public, to accentuate his individualism to the point where he became a loner, to give him a special sense of his own importance, to allow him to play an enormous role in the growth of commercial aviation as well as to be a figure in missile and space technology, to give him influence in military affairs, and to raise a significant voice for conservation, a concern that marked his older years.

16 thoughts on “It ought to be a national holiday”

  2. Happy birthday to you
    happy birthday to you
    happy birthday NewMexiKen
    happy birthday to you ~ and many more.

  6. I’ll see what I can shake up in the “National Holiday” department. If I celebrate here in D.C., is that sufficient?

    Happy Birthday Ken!

  13. Aw, dangit — I’m sorry I missed it. A belated happy birthday to you! I hope the coming year brings you happiness and success. 🙂

  14. Why am I not surprised that you are an Aquarius? (January 31 birthday here.) Hope you had a great one!

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