25 years ago today

[Grace]

28 January 1986

to touch the face of God

(too bad they have to have that commercial)

[RICHARD]

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2uv39_high-flight_ads

High Flight
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 windswept heights with easy grace
Where never lark, or even eagle flew -
And, while with silent lifting mind I've trod
The high untresspassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand and touched the face of God.

Pilot Officer Gillespie Magee
No 412 squadron, RCAF
Killed 11 December 1941

[Grace]

Beautiful. The narrator's voice sounds familiar?

[RICHARD]

I don't know who he is...

They used to run that clip when TV stations signed off for the night.

Another version?


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mQTPL6pbIk

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I looked up who narrated the clip and a few sites said William Conrad did the voice over.