I left the Democrat Party in 1980, never to return.

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27270 Msgt USAF, Retired, Air Traffic Control

Vietnam vet. 1877th Communications Squadron,

Bien Hoa Air Base, Vietnam from 14 July 70 to 10 July 71.

High Flight

By Captain John Gillespie Magee Jr. RCAF

Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of earth,
I danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings.
Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
of sunlit clouds--and done a hundred 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 eager 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.