Honors
Two airports in New York are named in honor of Floyd Bennett: Floyd Bennett Field, New York City's first municipal airport, and Floyd Bennett Memorial Airport in Queensbury, New York, near his birthplace. The destroyer USS Bennett (DD-473) is also named in his honor. On his flight to the South Pole in 1929, Byrd named his Ford Tri-motor airplane the Floyd Bennett in his honor. In his hometown of Warrensburg is the Floyd Bennett Park and Bandstand.
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“Justice shines in very smoky homes, and honors the righteous; but the gold-spangled mansions where the hands are unclean she leaves with eyes averted.”
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And from his brows damps of oblivion shed
Full on the filial dullness:”
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