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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 swing, 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 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.John Gillespie Magee, Jr. |
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Photo taken by and from the collection of Ron Rentfrow This photo is a composite--taken at Lcdr Skip Umstead's funeral service and ceremony at the National Cemetery in Pensacola. I shot the service in the base chapel, and then went to the cemetery and double exposed the film with the trumpeter playing "Taps". Not too many people have seen this, but Skip was a really special person--one of the finest officers I ever met, and this always reminds me of him. --RON RENTFROW |
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Monterey, Calif. (Oct. 10, 2005) Enlisted members and support officers assigned to the U.S Navy flight demonstration team, the "Blue Angels," stand in ranks outside the Ford Old Main Chapel in Monterey, Calif., as the team F/A-18A Hornets perform a missing man formation following a memorial service that honors the life of retired Navy Capt. Roy M. Butch Voris. Voris was the original flight leader of the Blue Angels and Naval Aviation Hall of Fame member, passed away in his home in Monterey, Calif., on Aug. 10, 2005 at 86 years old. |
