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Title: High Flight... Post by: warrenpees on 07 15, 11, 09:05:41:AM 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 nor 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 ==John W. McGee== (http://www.aesopsretreat.com/forum/Smileys/classic/107w9oy.gif) Title: Re: High Flight... Post by: Oz on 07 15, 11, 09:07:01:AM We had a TV station that used to sign off every night with a video of that.
Title: Re: High Flight... Post by: warrenpees on 07 15, 11, 09:07:33:AM How many saw that commercial in the 1950's and wanted to be a fighter pilot? I did. (http://www.aesopsretreat.com/forum/Smileys/classic/107w9oy.gif)
Title: Re: High Flight... Post by: 2whyme on 07 15, 11, 09:09:17:AM How many saw that commercial in the 1950's and wanted to be a fighter pilot? I did. (http://www.aesopsretreat.com/forum/Smileys/classic/107w9oy.gif) I did, also, but sometimes things don't work out the way one wants. I ended up as a B-52 crew member. I have a plaque with "High Flight" on it hanging with the rest of my military plaques, etc. Title: Re: High Flight... Post by: Oz on 07 15, 11, 09:10:14:AM Me, too. But I'd have had to stay in the military, and by that time I was tired of taking orders.
Title: Re: High Flight... Post by: warrenpees on 07 15, 11, 09:11:22:AM By the time I was about 16, my vision was so bad I could barely fly a desk. (http://www.aesopsretreat.com/forum/Smileys/classic/107w9oy.gif)
Title: Re: High Flight... Post by: aesopsfable on 07 15, 11, 09:12:32:AM hmm, that explains why you can't see through Obama.
Title: Re: High Flight... Post by: sweetwater5s9 on 07 15, 11, 09:22:23:AM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTms_G1yYPc&feature=related (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTms_G1yYPc&feature=related)
High Flight... in color Title: Re: High Flight... Post by: LadyRavensWing on 07 15, 11, 11:52:51:AM Thank you for posting this! This is one of my favorite poems in the whole wide world.
John Gillespie McGee died in combat shortly after it was written. Beautiful poem! Ldy R.* :O) (http://www.aesopsretreat.com/forum/Smileys/sarcasmics/107w9oy.gif) (http://www.aesopsretreat.com/forum/Smileys/sarcasmics/107w9oy.gif) (http://www.aesopsretreat.com/forum/Smileys/sarcasmics/107w9oy.gif) (http://www.aesopsretreat.com/forum/Smileys/sarcasmics/107w9oy.gif) (http://www.aesopsretreat.com/forum/Smileys/sarcasmics/107w9oy.gif) |