PRESIDENTS DAY 2012 ALSO DENOTES ANOTHER SIGNIFICANT AMERICAN ANNIVERSARY............

On this President's Day, honoring the forty three occupants of our nation's highest office - the Presidency of the United States of America; from George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, to Ronald and Barack Obama, including the separately termed, double numbered, Chief Executive - Grover Cleveland; today February 20, 2012, also marks another golden jubilee in American history.  Last week we were reminded of the fiftieth anniversary of the broadcast on all three American television networks at that time, of the White House led by First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy.  Today we commemorate the February 20, 1962 accomplishment of astronaut John Glenn, as the first American to orbit the earth, as he did that day three times on a rocketship named, Friendship Seven.  John Glenn became a genuine American hero that day and over the next three and a half decades a four term United States Senator from Ohio, and 1984 Democratic Presidential contender.  In his final months in the U.S. Senate in 1998, John Glenn made history again  when he went became the oldest person to travel into space, aboard the Space Shuttle.  Now 90 years old, John Glenn recalls his fete and its subsequent results with fondness and pride.  As Americans and citizens of the World, may we too take time to remember, commemorate,m and to ponder, the greatness God and History summons us to achieve in the contributions we commit ourselves to continue making to the betterment of all, at a time we need everyday heroes even more than ever............Fr.  Troy