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 windswept heights with easy grace
Where never lark, or even eagle flew.
And, while with silent, lifting mind I've trod
The high un-trespassed 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
In Memory Of...
- Aldrich, Stanley G. - November 2000
- Booth, Walter C. - KIA Vietnam, March 26, 1969
- Coats, James A. - April 9, 2002
- Cumella, Joseph T. Jr. - February 16, 1991
- Curtis, Arthur W. - October 30, 2006
- Dye, Thomas G. - March 7, 1990
- Edrington, George D. - F-100 accident, 1964
- Farman, Michael S. - June 22, 1979
- Flannery, John P. - 2008
- Jacobsen, Donald L. - Vietnam, Nov. 7, 1967
- Krause, Charles F. - December 23, 2009
- Lampkin, John A. - January 2007
- Larson, Roy N. - April 6, 2003
- Lewellyn, Gary E. - April 2003
- Mantsch, Carl M. - August 6, 1990
- McCormack, James - April 3, 2009
- McGowan, Desmond F. - F-100 accident, Jan. 28, 1965
- Olson, Marlin W. - July 20, 1980
- Reynolds, James P. - October 23, 1982
- Robinson, William R. (Robbie) - December 10, 2006
- Snyder, Alan E. - July 27, 1997
- Truman, James G. - December 24, 1975
- Vispi, Vito D. - April 29, 1996
- Warner, Gerald A. - June 4, 1997
- Watson, Denis P. - November 7, 1991
- Wetzel, William J. - February 24, 1985
- Wilson, Samuel B. - September 30, 1997
Day is done, Gone
the sun, From the lake, From the hills,
From the sky. All is well, Safely rest. God is nigh.
Fading light, Dims the sight. And a star, Gem the
sky,
Gleaming bright. From afar, Drawing nigh, Falls the
night.