[Lvas] Lvas Digest, Vol 21, Issue 17-Burnham Jr.

[John Boron]

Roger,

what a tragic story about Robert Burnham Jr. It was easy for me to assume 
that the writer of the Celestial Handbook was a successful person to the 
end.

John Boron
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> From: roger ivester <drivester at hotmail.com>
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> Fred,
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> Thank you for sharing your "horror" stories regarding your employment in 
> manufacturing in America.
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> I too have difficulty on Sunday nights also...even after 4-1/2 years.
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> My sister-in-law's brother whom I have know since the mid 60's and has 
> always been one of my best friends was an A-10 pilot at Nellis AF base 
> many years ago. He later became a wing commander at another A-10 
> base...forgot where it was now. He later flew a Stealth fighter, went to 
> the War college, and before that was in an exchange program with the Navy. 
> He would tell me about his 100+ carrier landings in the middle of the 
> night with only the strip lights on. He said that you had a 20 foot window 
> as the ship moved up and down...and it was important that you did each 
> landing perfect. He later retired as a full Bird Colonel.
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> The point: He said that the stress of carrier landings was severe and he 
> would often soak his flight suit with sweat before the landing. That is 
> the way I felt before attending and attempting to prepare for the 
> "everyday" morning management meeting. I still have difficulty enjoying 
> mornings...even having coffee with my wife.
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> Everyone should read the story of Robert Burnham Jr. author of the 
> Celestial Handbooks. I think the Phoenix times has a good story. Google 
> and you will find much.
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> Burnham lost his job at Lowell after a 20 years of a proper motion star 
> study. He was offered a job as a janitor...cleaning the bathrooms and 
> sweeping up at the Mars Hill complex. He died penniless and during his 
> last 10 tens sold paintings of cats outside a Planetarium in (maybe San 
> Diego). He occasionally mentioned to some of the insignificant astronomers 
> and directors of this planetarium that he was in fact Robert Burnham Jr.
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> Everyone thought that the pitiful looking guy was just a homeless 
> derelict. He died of congestive heart failure and no one even knew who he 
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>    I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the 
> earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how he could look up into 
> the heavens and say there is no God.      Abraham Lincoln
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