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Location: Essexville, MI./Saginaw Bay. | If your over 50 years old, you may remember this Poem about and honoring Air Force Pilots. It along with or in place of our national anthem used to be the last thing you head on TV when the networks would go off the air at night. Right before the Indian Head and Dial Tone signaled stagnent air. With both now (ironically) having become to politicallty in-correct in todays world. What a figleaf shame.
"High Flight"
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 wind-swept heights with easy grace.
Where never lark, or even eagle flew —
And, while with silent, lifting mind I've trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
- Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.
Heres the exact one that played.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoL-KCFbIpA
Edited by walleye express 11/10/2013 2:44 PM
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