[Magdalen] John Magee was Prayers ANSWERED: missing, beloved dog is found!

[Sibyl Smirl]

Oh, as an Army Brat of Japan yourself (though he was more of a 
Missionary Brat, a PK) you might appreciate that he was born in Shanghai 
in 1922, and got his early education at the American School in Nanking, 
going to England with his mother in 1931.  It's possible that he was 
inspired to get into the military as soon as he was old enough from 
reading/hearing about the 1937-38 Rape of Nanking (a town he'd have 
remembered)?

On 2/19/16 1:07 PM, Sibyl Smirl wrote:
> On 2/19/16 10:12 AM, Grace Cangialosi wrote:
>> Well, if there was a leap, it was totally unconscious--I don't think I
>> ever heard of John McGee. Thanks for the info.
>
>
> He didn't have a large body of published work, just the one poem he
> wrote down, which survived him.  It was printed in church publications
> by his father, then curate of St John's Episcopal Church in Washington,
> DC  He died at the age of 19 in 1941 in England in a crash of his
> Spitfire, a pilot for the Royal Canadian Air Force.
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gillespie_Magee,_Jr.
>
> 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 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."
>
>
>


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Sibyl Smirl
I will take no bull from your house!  Psalms 50:9a
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