Wednesday, March 06, 2013

One year ago............................................

We in the blogosphere lost one of the best...................................Our Good Captain, Carroll "Lex" Lefon.
The best post for me personally was that of Buck at Exile in Portales.
It was titled simply, Tears.................................................................We all shed them that day................
Tears



In his element, outside the cubicle.

Lex and Mary


A few of The Lexicans at Fort Rosecrans for the Memorial Service

RIP, Captain.  Thank you for all you did, for everyone. We miss you, terribly..........................

 

High 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. 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
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3 comments:

  1. BuckWednesday, March 06, 2013 9:36:00 AM

    T'is a sad day, indeed.

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  2. Glenn Mark CasselWednesday, March 06, 2013 11:14:00 AM

    Yes it is.
    We here at the 416 AMU lost our former tool room supervisor yesterday. Mary Richard had been fighting cancer................

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  3. Glenn Mark CasselThursday, March 07, 2013 1:50:00 AM

    Many Thanks, Mary Frantz!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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