Posted By Russ Emerson on January 15, 2004 at 1:52 pm
Bill Whittle, again, with a different kind of post.
[Our] sacred Honor is being upheld by teenagers in uniform who have asked us to help them bring medicine, fire helmets and Frisbees to a people brutalized for two generations. Some of these kids, likely, will not come home. They know this. And still they go: volunteers all.
Posted By Russ Emerson on January 15, 2004 at 8:10 am
James Lileks:
I wonder if we can embrace a big idea again. The moon shot was nonpartisan – Kennedy dialed the number, Nixon talked to the astronauts. Politics stopped at the ionosphere’s edge; it was an American gambit. I’d like to think we can do that again. I want to watch the Moon Channel with my daughter in 2010.
I want my child to look at the night sky and always think: this is the beginning. This is square one. More, please; faster.
Amen to that. Read the whole thing.