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RIP Gordo Cooper #579142 10/05/04 12:34 PM
Joined: Jul 2003 Posts: 2,397 Douglasville, GA M matlock OP Leader
OP matlock Leader M Joined: Jul 2003 Posts: 2,397 Douglasville, GA	We've lost another of the Mercury 7... Those men are true American heroes to me and always will be.

Re: RIP Gordo Cooper #579143 10/05/04 02:00 PM
Joined: Jul 2003 Posts: 2,699 Starhaven Consulate, City of A... G Greybird Leader
Greybird Leader G Joined: Jul 2003 Posts: 2,699 Starhaven Consulate, City of A...	"... And for a brief moment, Gordo Cooper became the greatest pilot anyone had ever seen." -- Levon Helm's narration at the end of "The Right Stuff," on Cooper's (Dennis Quaid) Mercury flight "Have a good ride, buddy. Go!" -- John Glenn (Ed Harris), immediately before the above

Re: RIP Gordo Cooper #579144 10/06/04 06:17 AM
Joined: Jul 2003 Posts: 12,766 South Carolina rickshaw1 Time Trapper
rickshaw1 Time Trapper Joined: Jul 2003 Posts: 12,766 South Carolina	Leigh, Dangerfield, Cooper. This week reeks. You will be missed, Sir. Damn you, you kids! Get off my lawn or I'm callin' tha cops! Something pithy!

Re: RIP Gordo Cooper #579145 10/06/04 07:02 AM
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Outdoor Miner Time Trapper Joined: Jul 2003 Posts: 16,670 A Huge, Pulsating, Ever-Expand...	Quote Originally posted by matlock: Those men are true American heroes to me and always will be. Seconded. R.I.P. Gordon. Legion World's Badwill Ambassador

Re: RIP Gordo Cooper #579146 10/06/04 09:45 AM
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Dev-Em Time Trapper Joined: Jul 2003 Posts: 12,336 Turn around...	Quote Originally posted by Greybird: "... And for a brief moment, Gordo Cooper became the greatest pilot anyone had ever seen." -- Levon Helm's narration at the end of "The Right Stuff," on Cooper's (Dennis Quaid) Mercury flight "Have a good ride, buddy. Go!" -- John Glenn (Ed Harris), immediately before the above Great movie. I gotta go watch it again. Active LMB character is still Beast Boy.

Re: RIP Gordo Cooper #579147 10/08/04 09:37 AM
Joined: Nov 2003 Posts: 785 Ventura, CA Director Lad Active
Director Lad Active Joined: Nov 2003 Posts: 785 Ventura, CA	Quote Originally posted by Greybird: "... And for a brief moment, Gordo Cooper became the greatest pilot anyone had ever seen." -- Levon Helm's narration at the end of "The Right Stuff," on Cooper's (Dennis Quaid) Mercury flight "Have a good ride, buddy. Go!" -- John Glenn (Ed Harris), immediately before the above "Go Hot Dog, Go!" Gus Grissom (Fred Ward), from the same sequence. The Right Stuff has been in my top five ever since I first saw it in the theater lo those twenty years ago. It placed the Mercury Seven firmly in the ranks of my personal heroes. I can't say that I'll "miss" Gordo Cooper, having never met the man, but I will say that the world could do worse than find a few more men with his kind of courage.

Re: RIP Gordo Cooper #579148 10/11/04 09:33 AM
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armsfalloffboy Deputy Joined: Aug 2003 Posts: 1,061	If you liked the movie, the book is damn near as good. The only consistent feature of all of your dissatisfying relationships is you. Don't judge me!