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In loving Memory
croxis
I am the walrus
in Zocalo v2.0
A moment of Silence to the 7 Challenger crew
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When I was at Mission Control in Houston a few years ago (I used to know one of the astronauts, so while we were on holiday we met up and got a tour 'backstage', as it were:D) there was a large framed picture of the Challenger 7 with a plaque under neath it. Unfortunately I cant remember the whole thing, but the last line is burned into my memory forever: "......and touched the face of god." Even after all our bickering about religion, the memory of that picture and quote still makes the hair standup on the back of my neck.
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I cant remember the whole thing, but the last line is burned into my memory forever: "......and touched the face of god." Even after all our bickering about religion, the memory of that picture and quote still makes the hair standup on the back of my neck. [/B][/QUOTE]
From Ronald Regan's speach that evening
"The crew of the space shuttle Challenger honored us by the manner in which they lived their lives. We will never forget them, nor the last time we saw them, this morning, as they prepared for their journey and waved good-bye and "slipped the surly bonds of earth" to "touch the face of God."
and the poem from which its taken
High Flight
by John Gillespie Magee, Jr.
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, nor 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.
And oddly enough, the Episode of Star Trek TNG that was on last night, Featured the Shuttlecraft Onizuka named of course after Ellison S. Onizuka, one of the Challenger 7.
Poetry is like food for me sometimes.
Memento..
[B]It was a good speech.
Poetry is like food for me sometimes.
Memento.. [/B][/QUOTE]
It was a very good speech,