After the loss of Columbia a couple of years ago, I think we were reminded of the risk. All of us, though, have always known that the Space Shuttle is a very risky vehicle, much more risky than even flying airplanes in combat.
But steel bars have never yet kept out a mob; it takes something a good deal stronger: human courage backed up by the consciousness of being right.
Paul Cellucci, Politician (1948) |
Richard M. Daley, Politician (1942) |
Jean Paul Gaultier, Designer (1952) |
Jim Geringer, Politician (1944) |
Jill Ireland, Actress (1936) |
Jack Kingston, Politician (1955) |
Bud Abbott, Actor (1974) |
Felix Adler, Educator (1933) |
Harry Banks, Soldier (1915) |
Alejo Carpentier, Novelist (1980) |
Willa Cather, Author (1947) |
James Thomas Fields, Publisher (1881) |
G. Stanley Hall, Psychologist (1924) |
Granville Stanley Hall, Psychologist (1924) |
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison, Writer (2002) |
Louis A. Johnson, Public Servant (1966) |