Up until his flight my dream was to be a Mounty(R.C.M.P.). After watching him blast off into orbit in 1962 at the age of nine, becoming an astronaut was added as an either/or to my list of one. I just checked my dust covered stamp collection, not touched in forty plus years. My pair of unused Mercury (1962) 4 cent stamps are just as I remember them. He was the last of the Mercury 7. The first to go up in to orbit, the last of his peers to leave us. I think he was my first hero and he never let me down.
http://www.space.com/34964-watch-john-glenn-s-historic-friendship-7-launch-video.html
Rest In Peace, John Glenn
"Fair Winds and Following Seas"
Semper Fi
sandrewn