Ya make me laugh, Chode! No apology accepted, nor required. My Pop was USAF...retired. He made his Blues look great, but not as good as mine;-). (I think that’s why he asked me to be his best man, at his last wedding...Hehehehehehehehe.)
The irony is I am now a 1stLT in the USAF Auxiliary...a SAR mission pilot...no insulated roof there;-)
Be of good cheer, my FRiend!
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunwards I’ve climbed and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds – and done a thousand things
You have not dreamed of - wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hovering 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.
God Bless...