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Originally posted by phisigduchesscv
I was trying to find the poem about something about Touching the Sky near the last stanzas of it that was read throughout the challenger disaster and memorials to post here but couldn't find it. It's as beautiful and as appropriate as the Air Force Hymn that was just posted. Hopefully if someone remembers what I'm talking about they can find the poem and post it here.
My prayers are for the families of all those affected and for the United States as we mourn this terrible loss
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The poem is called "High Flight" it was written by Officer Gillespie Magee, No 412 squadron, RCAF, Killed 11 December 1941.
It was read that the funerals of both my grandfather and dad, who were both pilots. Its a deeply personal poem to me and one of my favorites. I get emotional each time I read it.
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 unsurpassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand and touched the face of God.
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