(12-08-2016 04:08 PM)CajunAmos Wrote: I posted this on our local board, but since I follow here often I felt it appropriate.
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/former-...ar-AAljVFm
At age 6 I remember watching a small black & white TV and seeing a rocket being launched with an American man inside to circle the earth. Well done John Glenn, and God speed.
I was 6 also (late birthday)
Those were some special days for America.
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 wind-swept heights with easy grace
Where never lark nor ever 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.
