A Final Farewell

Douglas G Kindred

November 14, 1943 - April 21, 2024

OAHS President 2012 - 2024

Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth

And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wing;

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 nor ever eagle flew

and, while with silent lifting mind I've trod

the high un-trespassed sanctity of space,

put out my hand and touched the face of God.

- John Gillespie Magee Jr.

Oregon Aviation Historical Society & Museum