Up in the Air, Junior Birdman?Statman wrote:Next week, I think I will treat my AF students to the Air Force Song
Italian party
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Flyboys
.....flying high, into the sun!
The wave of the future, still viewed from left and right with suspicion, BUT........
Destroyer of battleships,
foreign and domestic nearly alike,
Defender of skyscrapers,
transporter to the masses,
oft unheralded for sacrifices above
and beyond the call of duty or otherwise.
In her writings, Kay Redfield Jamison cronicles an event that takes place in her childhood: As a second grader, she witnesses the crash of a jet that barely missed her schoolyard.
She writes: "Over the next few days it became clear, from the release of the young pilot's final message to the control tower before he died,that he knew he could save his own life by bailing out.he also knew, however, that by doing so he risked that his unnaccompanied planewould fall onto the playground and kill those of us who were there." That is the stuff that men are made of.
Food for thought to those of you fortunate enough to be in Ft. Meyer in two weeks. I look forward with relish to my next "Italian Party". In 1980 the Sicilians treated me like royalty; and my fondest memories stem from my Italian vacations as a young man in Europe and later traveling with The Sicilian band of Chicago.
Ave Italia!
The wave of the future, still viewed from left and right with suspicion, BUT........
Destroyer of battleships,
foreign and domestic nearly alike,
Defender of skyscrapers,
transporter to the masses,
oft unheralded for sacrifices above
and beyond the call of duty or otherwise.
In her writings, Kay Redfield Jamison cronicles an event that takes place in her childhood: As a second grader, she witnesses the crash of a jet that barely missed her schoolyard.
She writes: "Over the next few days it became clear, from the release of the young pilot's final message to the control tower before he died,that he knew he could save his own life by bailing out.he also knew, however, that by doing so he risked that his unnaccompanied planewould fall onto the playground and kill those of us who were there." That is the stuff that men are made of.
Food for thought to those of you fortunate enough to be in Ft. Meyer in two weeks. I look forward with relish to my next "Italian Party". In 1980 the Sicilians treated me like royalty; and my fondest memories stem from my Italian vacations as a young man in Europe and later traveling with The Sicilian band of Chicago.
Ave Italia!
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. --Shakespeare
It is my belief, that nearly any invented quotation, played with confidence, stands a good chance to decieve - Mark Twain
It is my belief, that nearly any invented quotation, played with confidence, stands a good chance to decieve - Mark Twain