Does anyone remember where this came from? "I reached out my hand and touched the face of God" I want to see how many old geezers like me are out here.
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During a speech following the Challenger disaster Reagan used the line "reached out my hand and touched the face of God." He was familiar with the poem and used the line in a moving speech. Cheers
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Vividly. It is a poem called "High Flight" by John Gillespie Magee, Jr., who was a jet jockey: 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. I too have been looking for old farts and fartresses that remember "the way we were". Please respond. Thanks.
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It was also used as a sign off for some stations back in the sixties. There was video of a pilot flying and the poem was recited, and the last line was, " I reached out my hand and touched the face of God." Then the station went off the air. We were living in Ogden, Utah at the time. It is one of my fondest childhood memories.
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Slipstream, made in 1989
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i dont remember but it sounds like a good saying
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