i love to go flying and doing stuff with civil air patrol. nothing beats seeing tomorrow's leaders get molded together under your care. whenever mom isnt yelling at me not to, my nose is always in one of Tom Clancy, W.E.B. Griffin, Patrick Robinson, or Ted Bell's books. i love their novels.
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 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
Marines are about the most peculiar breed of human beings I have ever witnessed. They treat their service as if it was some kind of cult, plastering their emblem on almost everything they own, making themselves up to look like insane fanatics with haircuts to ungentlemanly lengths, worshipping their Commandant almost as if he was a god, and making weird animal noises like a band of savages. They'll fight like rabid dogs at the drop of a hat just for the sake of a little action, and are the cockiest SOB's I have ever known. Most have the foulest mouths and drink well beyond man's normal limits, but their high spirits and sense of brotherhood set them apart, and, generally speaking, of the United States Marines I've come in contact with, are the most professional soldiers and the finest men I have had the pleasure to meet.
-An Anonymous Canadian Citizen
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I'd like to meet:
BURT RUTAN, Billy Mitchell, and Glenn Beck
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Heroes:
Wilbur Wright, Orville Wright, Otto Lillienthal, Samuel Langley, Baron von Zeppelin, Hugo Eckner, John Harrison, Sanford Fleming, Daniel Bernoulli, Francois Pilatre de Rozier, Hiram Maxim, Billy Mitchell, John Gillespie Magee Jr., Glenn Beck, and 1st Lieutenant Ambrosio Ramil-my grandpa, ALL THE U.S. AND COALITION FORCES WHO ARE IN AFGHANISTAN IRAQ AND AROUND THE WORLD, all the Iraqis who went to vote even though they knew that there were snipers and suicide bombers but went anyway, and all the other people who didnt listen to what everyone else said and kept pushing on forward--whether they succeeded or not they're all heroes
