Memorial Day Tribute
Memorial Day 2016
As we remember all those who fought and continue to fight for our freedoms, please enjoy this poem by John Gillespie Magee Jr., an American pilot who was killed at the age of nineteen on December 11, 1941 during a training flight.

"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.
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."
 
------John Gillespie Magee, Jr.
 
 
Today, we remember and pay tribute to all those who have served our country so that we may enjoy all of the freedoms of being an American.


God Bless America,