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This is a very insightful observation. If the human default setting is a certain amount of fearfulness (and every small child I’ve ever met suggests that is true), then peace requires courage. The more courage you have, the more at peace you can be with those aspects of life that others might consider dangerous.
Who is Amelia Earhart?
Amelia Mary Earhart (/ˈɛərhɑːrt/, born July 24, 1897 – disappeared July 2, 1937, declared dead January 5, 1939) was an American aviation pioneer and author. Earhart was the first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. She set many other records, wrote best-selling books about her flying experiences, and was instrumental in the formation of The Ninety-Nines, an organization for female pilots.
Born in Atchison, Kansas, Earhart developed a passion for adventure at a young age, steadily gaining flying experience from her twenties. In 1928, Earhart became the first female passenger to cross the Atlantic by airplane (accompanying pilot Wilmer Stultz), for which she achieved celebrity status. In 1932, piloting a Lockheed Vega 5B, Earhart made a nonstop solo transatlantic flight, becoming the first woman to achieve such a feat. She received the United States Distinguished Flying Cross for this accomplishment. In 1935, Earhart became a visiting faculty member at Purdue University as an advisor to aeronautical engineering and a career counselor to women students. She was also a member of the National Woman’s Party and an early supporter of the Equal Rights Amendment.
During an attempt at becoming the first female to complete a circumnavigational flight of the globe in 1937 in a Purdue-funded Lockheed Model 10-E Electra, Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan disappeared over the central Pacific Ocean near Howland Island. The two were last seen in Lae, New Guinea, on July 2, 1937, on the last land stop before Howland Island and one of their final legs of the flight. She presumably lost her life in the Pacific during the circumnavigation, just three weeks prior to her fortieth birthday. Nearly one year and six months after she and Noonan disappeared, Earhart was officially declared dead. Investigations and significant public interest in their disappearance still continue over 80 years later.
The famous pilot and the mystery of her disappearance was in the news again, late in 2025. President Donald Trump announced on September 26. 2025, that he was going to declassify the details of her final flight “and everything else about her.” Rumors purport that the details are shocking. A decade earlier, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was also very interested in getting the details about Earhart’s final days and if she found out, the public did not. Will we ever find out what happened? Will it in fact be shocking? Perhaps! Is it strange that heads of state seem to struggle so much, even 90 years later, to get secret documents released to the public? Definitely.
Perhaps the underlying mystery here, even below that of Earhart’s fate, is that the people who are in charge are not who we think they are?
