John Gillespie McGee, Jr. # 412 Squadron, RCAF
I have slipped the surly bonds of earth and danced the skies on laugher-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 sored and swung 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 buring blue I've topped the windswept heights with easy grace where never lark nor eagle flew.
And, while with silent lifting mind I've trad the high untrespassed sanctity of space, put out my hand and touched the face of God.
Those of us whom you created Pilots of know, You will always be with us up there........
