Winning Words 6/1/10
“What kind of a man would live in a world where there is no daring? I don’t believe in taking foolish chances, but nothing can be accomplished without taking any chance at all.” (Charles Lindbergh) Lucky Lindy’s solo across the Atlantic was a real chancy flight. I wonder if there were betting odds at the time. CL is buried in a private spot in Hawaii. His mother is buried here in West Bloomfield, MI. Yesterday I made a visit to her gravesite after our annual Memorial Day observance. ;-) Jack

FROM SH IN MICHIGAN: Of all the people I talked to yesterday, visiting gravesites and observing Memorial Day, your visit was the most different one. FROM JACK: At the observance a man played The Star-Spangled Banner on a harmonica. A bag-piper in a kilt was there, also, playing Amazing Grace, as he walked through the cemetery.

FROM MV IN MICHIGAN: Where is she buried? FROM JACK: In Pine Lake Cemetery by a lilac bush and a good sized tree. Her bother, Charles, is buried next to her. I suppose Lindy was named after him. MORE FROM MV: This is really cool history! Why W Bloomfield? Were they born here or citizens of? Was Charles born here?
FROM JACK: I'll try to find out.

FROM DM IN MICHIGAN: You are a gifted man - and writer! FROM JACK: As Popeye the Sailor uster say: "I yam what I yam and tha's all what I yam."

FROM MOLINER CF: I wonder why he didn't fly back. It would have been faster than coming by boat. FROM JACK: I think the French wouldn't release the plane, because he had not paid his landing fee. He didn't have a gasoline credit card, either.

FROM AM IN MICHIGAN: Reading Lindbergh's life story, I'd say he took chances with his life. It is the lives of others we need to respect and he had a challenge with that. FROM JACK: What do you mean? MORE FROM AM: Charles Lindbergh's story revealed his strong feelings for the German ideas before World War II. Articles,film and Berg's book "Lindbergh"reveal that he had a complicated and secret life including children with German women. He had five children with Anne Morrow, his wife here. in U.S. The Secret Lives of Charles Linbergh was on National Geographic channel in July, 2009. I did not watch it but I saved the Wall
Street Journal article about it. Scott Berg's, book delves deeply Who knows how the kidnapping in 1932 impacted the family? What a horrible time for the Lindberghs. FROM JACK: "Turn over every rock," as the saying goes. I had forgotten "the rest of the story." Maybe selective memory isn't all bad.