1st Lt Harry A Boller.

90th Bomb Group, 319 Squadron (Asterperious)

 


Entrance to Oakwood Cemetery

Rochester, Olmsted County, Minnesota, USA.

High Flight

by John Magee

Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of earth,

And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;

Sunwards I’ve climbed and joined the tumbling mirth

Of sun-split clouds – and done a thousand 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.

The Old Rugged Cross
by
Brendan Shine

     
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