Wow, sounds like an incredible guy!
Thanks for this post: two icons of my childhood have died within a few days of one another: one who portayed an American hero, and one who was one.
Go with God, Robert White
RIP.
Rest In Peace, brave pioneer
High Flight
Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I have 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, 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.
God Speed General White. :^)
Rest in Peace, General White
You were a childhood hero and the X-15 was an amazing aircraft.