twenty years ago today...

[lagilman]

Francis R. (Dick) Scobee
Michael J. Smith
Judith A. Resnik
Ronald E. McNair
Ellison S. Onizuka
Gregory B. Jarvis
Sharon Christa McAuliffe



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

Comments

[matociquala.livejournal.com]

Amen

[greeneyedkzin.livejournal.com]

Absent friends.

[vampry.livejournal.com]

If you don't mind, I'm borrowing this poem....since I don't have much time before I go to work.

Thank you for posting it.

[kriz1818.livejournal.com]

Good one. Thank you.

[patchwork-prose.livejournal.com]

That verse has always reminded me SO forceably of why I was determined, when I was in high school, to become a military pilot and then an astronaut. (Turned out, my eyesight was too poor.) ::sigh::

[skylarker.livejournal.com]

Sniffle.

[alfreda89.livejournal.com]

Thank you.