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"HIgh Flight
The Sequal"
All Naval Aviators have read the poem, "High Flight". Brother Tarsier Ken "Hogie" Hogendobler was privilidged to receive one of the greatest Father's Day presents a dad could ever receive. Hogie's son wrote him a poem, a sequal to "High Flight." As our friends, Billy and Lumpy, need our prayers, it is appropriate to read this poem in their honor.
| For years they attempted to don wings
and fly A perpetual pursuit to conquer the sky To see His creations as He sees them below To be one with nature and the science of flow To fly, for the freedom of one and one's rights Experiencing two at one time, fight and flight "to the future," you'd say, "the betterment of all men" Still, above all the rest, you alone return with the wind To give of yourself, with heartfelt energy and yearn To pass on your wings so that others may learn Of the excitement, the danger of the death of the dove Of each landing on the carrier of life Of those memories and that love Fortunate are those who feel of silver linings Hear only wind and see cloud-tops shining Witness to all the blessed things first-hand The powerful feeling one must have ascending land To have winged air, touching Heaven through and through To have been the only thing between seas and skies of blue To have soared with death, towing it around To have wondered if your last prayer would be to walk on solid ground "Thank You for giving me another day today My family, my friends, it is to them that I can say: I have seen what You see, I have seen what You can do, and I'll live a more content tomorrow just knowing I have moved -Like the wind and the clouds- that much closer, Lord, to you. J. Matthew Hogendobler, DMD |