High Flight
By John Gillespie McGee, Jr. (1922 - 1941)
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 — and wheeled and soared
And swung high in 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 untrespassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.
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Captain Don Charles Wood, USAF
Call Sign "Olds 5"
354th TFS of the 355th Tactical Fighter Wing
Takhli, RTAFB, Thailand
Born : 11 November 1929, Ogden, Utah
Home City of Record : Provo, Utah
Missing In Action (MIA) 16.50 Local, 16 January 1966
The Plain of Jars Region
Xiang Khoang Province, Laos
Capt. Wood's Mission Was In Support Of Secret CIA-Directed
Indigenous Anti-Pathet Lao (Communist) Forces
Presumtive DoD Finding of Death (PFOD) : 03 MAR 80
Rank At PFOD : Colonel
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