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Offline Hortlund

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High Flight - January 28th 1986
« Reply #15 on: June 10, 2003, 05:53:15 PM »
High Flight...I love that poem,

and I just wanted to punt this thread because I think we should all take one moment to remember them.
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Offline DiabloTX

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« Reply #16 on: June 10, 2003, 10:43:01 PM »
Ditto.  Now, if only Yes could add some "Going For The One" era music to it.  Now that would be amazing...

The Gates of Delirium (an excerpt)
Anderson/Howe/Moraz/Squire/White

Soon, oh soon the light,
Pass within and soothe this endless night
And wait here for you,
Our reason to be here.

Soon, oh soon the time,
All we move to gain will reach and calm;
Our heart is open,
Our reason to be here.

Long ago, set into rhyme.
Soon, oh soon the light,
Ours to shape for all time,
Ours the right;
The sun will lead us,
Our reason to be here.

Soon, oh soon the light,
Ours to shape for all time,
Ours the right;
The sun will lead us,
Our reason to be here.


I became a HUGE Yes fan in 1978...when I was 11 years old.   Yeager!!
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Offline Yeager

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« Reply #17 on: June 10, 2003, 11:12:20 PM »
I first saw Yes "In the Round" way back in 1979 at the Seattle Center Colliseum.  It was my very first concert.  I was 16.  Been a dedicated Yessist ever since :)

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Offline guttboy

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« Reply #18 on: June 17, 2003, 03:02:26 AM »
Thanks for letting me see High Flight again!

Its been a while since I have heard or recited it.  When I was a cadet at the USAF Academy I used to recite it daily as a freshman (forced knowledge).  I can still say it from memory.  

Thanks for taking me back!  Great poem!
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Offline mjolnir

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« Reply #19 on: June 17, 2003, 03:12:35 AM »
Hey guttboy,

Fast
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Offline guttboy

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« Reply #20 on: June 17, 2003, 03:19:31 AM »
OMFG!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Good
Good


Form O-96

GOD THAT BROUGHT BACK MEMORIES!

Class of 90.....37/38 Squadrons!

Are you in Maine?  My folks live in Freeport.
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Offline mjolnir

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« Reply #21 on: June 17, 2003, 03:26:31 AM »
Class of 02   35/36 (they cut out 37-40 after my freshman year)

I'm from Maine, down near Portland, but I'm stationed at Lakenheath at the moment.  Small world.
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Offline guttboy

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« Reply #22 on: June 17, 2003, 03:29:47 AM »
What you doing in Lakenheath?  I am flying MC-130s at Kirtland AFB...flew AC130s at Hurlburt after the zoo.  Then went to Kadena for 4 years flying MC's....now at Kirtland.

WOW....class of 02....man now do I feel old....LOL.

How you liking Lakenheath?  Its a nice base.

Stay in touch!
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Offline guttboy

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« Reply #23 on: June 17, 2003, 03:30:19 AM »
BTW where near portland?
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Offline mjolnir

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« Reply #24 on: June 17, 2003, 03:42:25 AM »
I'm casual here filling an exec slot for the F-15C squadron.  I start UPT in August  (about time!).  Hard to argue with an overseas casual assignment, even if it meant waiting a year for a start date.

Oh, and since you seem to know the area, I'm from over by Sebago Lake.

Sorry for making you feel old......sir. ;)
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Offline mjolnir

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« Reply #25 on: June 17, 2003, 03:45:08 AM »
btw, isn't it about 0-dark-30 in NM right now?  You night flying this week by any chance?
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Offline guttboy

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« Reply #26 on: June 17, 2003, 04:24:41 AM »
Hey....

Just got home...its 0330 now local time.  I was sitting SOF (Supervisor of flying) for the wing.  Crapola job....you will get your chance soon enuf!

I am flying Wed night and Friday I think.  Online I'll be up sporadically this week.

I fly as TG12 on the Rook side...dont hold that against us.

Anyhow...I know Sebago Lake well....

Keep in touch!  Email is shadow17th@aol.com

Cya soon!


Mike
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Offline Wlfgng

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« Reply #27 on: June 17, 2003, 04:06:20 PM »
Lit up with anticipation
We arrive at the launching site
The sky is still dark, nearing dawn
On the Florida coastline

Circling choppers slash the night
With roving searchlight beams
This magic day when super-science
Mingles with the bright stuff of dreams

Floodlit in the hazy distance
The star of this unearthly show
Venting vapours, like the breath
Of a sleeping white dragon

Crackling speakers, voices tense
Resume the final count
All systems check, T minus nine
As the sun and the drama start to mount

The air is charged
A humid, motionless mass
The crowds and the cameras,
The cars full of spectators pass
Excitement so thick you could cut it with a knife
Technology...high, on the leading edge of life

The earth beneath us starts to tremble
With the spreading of a low black cloud
A thunderous roar shakes the air
Like the whole world exploding

Scorching blast of golden fire
As it slowly leaves the ground
Tears away with a mighty force
The air is shattered by the awesome sound

Like a pillar of cloud
The smoke lingers high in the air
In fascination
With the eyes of the world
We stare...
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Offline midnight Target

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« Reply #28 on: June 17, 2003, 04:11:51 PM »
Guttboy or mjolnir - Do you recall an instructor (basketball coach too) at the Academy, Major Englebretson?
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Offline guttboy

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« Reply #29 on: June 17, 2003, 04:59:07 PM »
Sorry Midnight... the only Basketball coach at the academy I knew was Coach Minton.  His son flew with me in Japan for 4 years.  We were on the same hard crew.
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