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Title: High Flight ,,,,,, December 11 1941
Post by: 007Rusty on December 11, 2010, 12:13:03 AM

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(http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c135/007rusty/666E1ADE_5056_A318_A8DABD19F8FA7002.jpg)


Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds - and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of - wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there
I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air.
Up, up the long delirious, burning blue,
I've topped the windswept heights with easy grace
Where never lark, or even eagle flew -
And, while with silent lifting mind I've trod
The high untresspassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand and touched the face of God.
Pilot Officer Gillespie Magee
No 412 squadron, RCAF
Killed 11 December 1941
(http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c135/007rusty/spits_and_canes_388-mar08.jpg)
(http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c135/007rusty/IMAG006.jpg)
(http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c135/007rusty/Magee_Grave.jpg)

Title: Re: High Flight
Post by: Dichotomy on December 11, 2010, 12:31:51 AM

*bows head*

 :salute

thanks man

Title: Re: High Flight ,,,,,, December 11 1941
Post by: oakranger on December 11, 2010, 01:37:27 AM

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Title: Re: High Flight ,,,,,, December 11 1941
Post by: ozrocker on December 11, 2010, 07:45:50 AM

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Title: Re: High Flight ,,,,,, December 11 1941
Post by: danny76 on December 11, 2010, 08:10:23 AM

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To have that talent for writing aged 19, not to mention the skills and bravery to fly a fighter. Different breed

Title: Re: High Flight ,,,,,, December 11 1941
Post by: Reaper90 on December 11, 2010, 01:05:52 PM

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