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Kathryn Gabriel Loving
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John Gillespie Magee Jr. Loved Elinor Lyon
John Gillespie Magee, Jr., the WWII poet and fighterpilot who wrote “High Flight,” the anthem of aviators for seventy-five years, left...
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The Spiritual Meaning of John Gillespie Magee’s Poem “High Flight”
Originally published March 2, 2017 “Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth … put out my hand and touched the face of God.” President...
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Brave New World: A Sonnet by John Gillespie Magee, Jr.
“High Flight” was not John Gillespie Magee Jr.’s only literary work. He wrote more than a dozen poems in his brief life, but he was most...
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