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I first heard that poem when I was a young boy when one night I watched TV till it signed off for the night (remember that) and they would read that poem in closing down the signal. I had to close that TV signal down quite a few time in order to catch the whole poem.
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He wasn't killed in action. He was killed in a collision with a training aircraft in low cloud over Lincolnshire, England.
The last line of this poem occurred to him while test flying a Spitfire Mk 3 at 30,000 ft, and when he wrote to his mother a week later, he penned the poem on the back of the letter.
It is certain that the legacy he left us in this one, short poem is far more abiding than anything he could have done as an act of war.
DownhillAllTheWay 2 years ago
I didn't research his name. The flyer I have from the airforce recruiting office where I first got the written poem had that info at the bottom of the page. Thanks for the correction.
yafanna3 2 years ago
Yes! Me too. It was on the ABC tv signoff, channel 6 where I was. I went to an airforce recruting center and told the guy about it, searching for the name. He smiled so big and handed me a flyer with the poem, it's title and the author info on it. He aid it was the US Airforce theme. That was over 20 yrs ago and I still have it: fold marks, tattered and dog-eared. My alltime favorite poem. Thank you for loving it too.
yafanna3 3 years ago