AS soon as I receive any new info about services etc. I’ll pass along. Dick
Sad news…Tom Goldt passed away this morning (Saturday the 1st at 2:45). Hal
Begin forwarded message:From: mulligoldt <mulligoldt@comcast.net>
Subject: Re: High Flight
Date: June 1, 2019 at 5:16:47 AM PDT
To: Hal Cody <halcody@sbcglobal.net>
Poem was beautiful..appropriate..Tom passed away this morning at 2:45am….Marin
High Flight
By John Gillespie Magee, Jr.
(A
sonnet written by John Gillespie Magee, an American pilot with the
Royal Canadian Air Force in the Second World War. He came to Britain,
flew in a Spitfire squadron, and was killed at the age of nineteen on 11
December 1941 during a training flight from the airfield near
Scopwick.)
Portions Of This Lovely Poem Appear On The Headstones
Of Many Interred In Arlington National Cemetery,
Patricularly Aviators And Astronauts
“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.”