Mrs John Glenn

[xoxoxoBruce]

Everyone pretty much agrees John Glenn is a hero, a great American. But not many people know who his hero was, Annie, his wife of 73 years. Now most guys would say nice things about there wives after 73 years, but Annie has an amazing story of her own.

But they were different. John was athletic and outgoing while Annie barely spoke, not because she didn’t have anything to say, but because when she did, people often assumed she was either deaf or mentally deficient.

For most of her life, Annie was afflicted with an 85 percent stutter, meaning she would become “hung up on 85 percent of the words she tried to speak, which was a severe handicap,” as John put it. Those years must have been torture for Annie.

Some of the inconveniences might seem small. John recalled them:
For Annie, stuttering meant not being able to take a taxi because she would have to write out the address and give it to the driver because she couldn’t get the words out. It would be too embarrassing to try to talk about where she wanted to go. Going to the store is a tremendously difficult and frustrating experience when you can’t find what you want and can’t ask the clerk because you are too embarrassed of your stutter.

But she beat it and went on to help handicapped people.
Read her story here.