General Discussion

... not flying, but doing stuff he never talked about, and later working on the Apollo Project, which was his greatest pride.

His personal life was always a mess. Sure he could tie his shoelaces, but he didn't always remember to do it, so he usually he wore shoes without laces. His style of dress was unique. I think he was steampunk, born a century too soon. He loved brass and gold and leather and fine antique watches and vacuum tubes.

He was a wizard with titanium and other exotic materials, skills he'd acquired by means he never revealed. But outside his career he was a crackpot inventor, a seeker of space alien intelligence in the radio spectrum and by UFO observations, and an occasional Kennedy Assassination Conspiracy theorist.

Politically my grandfather was "conservative" but he thought highly of Kennedy, the President who had challenged the nation to land men on the moon, allowing my grandfather to figure out how to fabricate some various bits of metal that got us there.

So much as I admire my grandfather, he would have been a terrible President of the U.S.A..

Politics is a different sort of specialty.

Obama is one of this nation's great Presidents, what this nation needed after the Bush catastrophe.

Sanders and Clinton are both competent and experienced politicians.

The Republican Candidates, including Carson, are an evil clown car.

Unfortunately this nation has suffered many evil clown Presidents in my lifetime. Nixon, Reagan, the Bushes...

We mustn't let that happen again.