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  • 2012-03-26 (xsd:date)
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  • How John Glenn's Wife, Annie, Overcame Her Stuttering (de)
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  • Most Americans are familiar with the exploits of John Glenn, a former U.S. Marine Corps pilot who, as one of the original Mercury 7 astronauts, was transformed into a national hero after becoming the first American to orbit the Earth on 20 February 1962. Later in life he represented Ohio in the United States Senate for twenty-four years, and in 1998 he became the oldest person to go into space when he flew on a Space Shuttle Discovery mission in 1998. Much less well known is John Glenn's wife, the former Annie Castor, whom Glenn had known since childhood and married when he was a 21-year-old combat pilot during World War II. In February 2012, the fiftieth anniversary of Glenn's orbital flight prompted CNN contributor Bob Greene to pen an article about the Glenns' lengthy marriage (then at 68 years and counting) and Annie's long battle to overcome a terrible stuttering problem which had she had struggled with since she was a little girl, an affliction she finally managed to overcome at the age of 53. Annie Glenn began speaking out publicly about her lifelong struggle with her speech impediment in the early 1980s, discussing the subject on national television and in the press, crowning her achievement by making speeches on behalf of her husband as he campaigned for the 1984 Democratic presidential nomination. A 1982 Los Angeles Times article on the subject reported that: A 1983 Associated Press article on the same subject read (in part): John and Annie had been married for 73 years when the former passed away in 2016 at the age of 95. Annie herself reached the century mark before she died in May 2020 of complications from the COVID-19 coronavirus disease. (en)
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