April 22, 2021
Volume 51 - No. 16
By Friedrich Gomez
Describing Charles Lindbergh’s life could mislead many to think he was several different people.
And, in a manner of speaking – he was.
He lived a varied and complex life that seemed mysterious and mosaic, and sometimes self-contradicting and puzzling – even unto himself.
His life seemed to personify Winston Churchill’s descriptive The Paper - 760.747.7119
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words: “A riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma.”
He first entered into this world nearly 120 years ago, as Charles Augustus Lindbergh (1902-1974). Although he was born in Detroit, Michigan, he spent most of his childhood growing up on a farm in Little Falls, Minnesota. Before he would die, he would reshape avionics, science, engineering, space flight, medicine, history, and the human imagination. He
would become a most unlikely (civilian) war hero and even a Pulitzer Prize-winning author. Ask any child today to name a famous pilot and they will most likely shout the words: “Charles Lindbergh!” THE MANY WORLDS OF CHARLES AUGUSTUS LINDBERGH. From a very early age, the world in which Charles Lindbergh occupied was strangely different from other children.
He was what modern child analysts and pediatric experts today call:
“Precocious.”
During his early formative years, Lindbergh exhibited a very unusual and precocious interest in the complex nature of things, and deeply fascinated at how sophisticated mechanics and engineering worked – and why. As a mere child, he was often observed tinkering with his parent’s Saxon Six automobile.
And then later, with his own Excelsior-built motorbike which he
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